The Curses extension to perl5, version 1.0
Copyright (c) 1994-1996 William Setzer
All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the Artistic License.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
Artistic License for more details.
This is a dynamic loadable curses module for perl5. You can get this
package at any CPAN archive, or from:
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/math/wsetzer/Curses-1.0.tar.gz
Mirrors take note: This is also available as:
ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/math/wsetzer/Curses/Curses-1.0.tar.gz
Please see the INSTALL document for how to install it on your system,
the Curses pod (located at the end of "Curses.pm") for
incompatibilities with other Perl programs, and the end of this
document for known compile or install problems.
New in 1.0:
o Hey, a real release! :-)
o Note added in Makefile.PL to address the `top_env' problem when
compiling for Solaris with gcc.
o Another test program "gdc" from the ncurses distribution, ported
quickly to perl.
o IRIX hint file.
o Better INSTALL instructions, I think. I don't remember when I
wrote them, so you might only see what you saw in alpa 9.
The "demo" program is for demonstration purposes only. If it
references a function your version of curses doesn't have, wrap it in
an "eval" and try again. Same goes double for the "gdc" program.
Many thanks Malcolm Beattie and Larry Wall, without whose code I could
steal I wouldn't have written this. Enjoy!
William Setzer
[email protected]
Known Problems
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Linux:
getch() and getstr() don't work right under very old versions of
ncurses. Please upgrade to a newer version.
