Cursor key input in curses ?

[M Darrin Chaney]

In article <1991Apr21.015251.6148 at watdragon.waterloo.edu> kcwellsch at watdragon.waterloo.edu (Ken Wellsch) writes:
>I'll put my two-bits in on this one.  Unlike VMS which I believe has a
>strong dislike for any terminal that is not DEC (e.g. VT100 etc.), a
>package like curses has the horrid task of trying to understand numerous
>terminal types (thousands of old and new terminals - actually "termcap"
>describes them, while curses tries to provide a windowing environment
>for a regular tty).

If you'd check into SMG, you'd find that it also supports any terminal
that you're willing to make an entry for.  DEC may have a dislike for
old terminals, but let's face it, the 70's are gone.  Just about any
terminal worth its salt knows at least the ANSI sequences.

SMG is a superset of Curses, and has many more horrid tasks...

	Darrin
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