On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:02:41 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2011-03-10, Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 00:38 -0600, GrayShark wrote: >>> Once, many, many, years ago, I programmed some type of 'graphical' >>> interface on a VT200 terminal (only DEC VAX/VMS programmers are going >>> to know what this is). Question. What was the library I linked >>> against? Yes, you remember, painting boxes with ascii and the superset >>> of ascii. >> >> It was curses [ these days people typically use "ncurses" ]. > > Curses that can't be what the OP is referring to. > > Curses wasn't a VAX/VMS thing, it was a Unix thing (that has been ported > to other platforms as well). VMS did have it's own text-screen-widget > library sort of like curses+panel, but I don't remember what it was > called. Some googling coughs up FMS and DECforms. I vageuly remember > using one or the other, but that was a long time ago (25 years). > > At first first I thought he was talking about ReGIS, but that wasn't > available on the vt200 (it was on vt240/330/340).
Actually it was curses; it came with the C compiler. What was more entertaining was that I using a legacy Fortran program, DEC Fortran (actually had pointers!) and linking to a C curses interface. Most exciting. The rest of the project was about realtime data collect and processing on a microvax III. In the mid-90, that wasn't doable at 1 milliscond time steps. VMS was just not realtime aware. GrayShark. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
