[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ]
the basis for this question was to determine if it was feasible to write a portable FBSD application and/or library without external dependencies.
You can write portable ANSI-C code using the STDIO routines, without external dependencies upon termcap, ncurses, or anything else but libc.
it is understood what "ncurses" and "SLang" are for - and initially ANSI escape sequences seemed to provide a way to break through the burdens and complications of ncurses and termcap entries.
Which are? Precisely what are you trying to do?
Do you need color? Are you using plain text-mode stuff, or do you need bitmapped graphics? If text-mode, do you need cursor positioning? Do you care whether your code runs on anything but an Intel box?
-- -Chuck
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