Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-08-01 Thread Larry Hall
OK, as long as you're aware of the restrictions and adhere to them, it should work for you without mounting or creating a wrapper batch file. Larry Terry Dabbs wrote: Thanks for the clarification. These are pretty standard MS workstations regardless of the task we are using them for (wish it was

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-08-01 Thread Terry Dabbs
Thanks for the clarification. These are pretty standard MS workstations regardless of the task we are using them for (wish it was linux...), so I can't help but use the default drive. So, although it may be something to be aware of, it does appear it is hard to screw it up. Terry Dabbs Larry Hal

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
Terry Dabbs wrote: Thanks for the help. Since your advice kept me from having to "install" cygwin on the machines I'm going to run this on, the mounting, I suppose defaults to what it was on my compiling machine, which is the C drive for cygwin in my case. Actually, no. I guess I wasn't clear.

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Terry Dabbs
Thanks for the help. Since your advice kept me from having to "install" cygwin on the machines I'm going to run this on, the mounting, I suppose defaults to what it was on my compiling machine, which is the C drive for cygwin in my case. Thanks. Larry Hall wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > >

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:47:13PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: Hi Terry, Don't know exactly what accounts for the performance drain you see with 98. Like you say, could be just a slow machine. You'd have to debug it to know for sure. One point. /usr/share/terminfo/c/cyg

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:47:13PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote: >Hi Terry, > >Don't know exactly what accounts for the performance drain you see with >98. Like you say, could be just a slow machine. You'd have to debug it >to know for sure. > >One point. /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin == c:\usr\share\

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
Hi Terry, Don't know exactly what accounts for the performance drain you see with 98. Like you say, could be just a slow machine. You'd have to debug it to know for sure. One point. /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin == c:\usr\share\terminfo\c\cygwin only if the Cygwin root mount point (/) == c:\. A

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Terry Dabbs
Larry, I just copied the path so the file is c:\usr\share\terminfo\c\cygwin directly from the machine I compile with. This does work, and cygwin, yet again, has made my little project happier. I do note that the laptop running win98 I tried this on took a good 20 seconds to give up the terminal to

Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Larry Hall
Terry Dabbs wrote: I've been using gcc to compile some simple applications for NT win98 and win95 for automating machinery. I have a problem on one screen where you can't read the command.com screen (windows98) clearly, so I loaded ncurses, redid the application so it the text is very bright and c

ncurses and terminal definitions

2003-07-31 Thread Terry Dabbs
I've been using gcc to compile some simple applications for NT win98 and win95 for automating machinery. I have a problem on one screen where you can't read the command.com screen (windows98) clearly, so I loaded ncurses, redid the application so it the text is very bright and colorful even on the