Re: -= No Line Wrap Curses.h =-

From: Alan Balmer (albalmer_at_att.net)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:33:05 -0700

On 30 Aug 2004 22:03:45 GMT, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
wrote:

>In article <1p57j0lks1brp1b69ks8ul7e2rlsg45vmn@4ax.com>,
>Mark McIntyre <markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote:
>
>>>I am having a hard time trying to find out how to stop windows from
>>>line wrapping using the curses library. Does anyone know how?
>
>>Unfortunately yur questoin has nothing to do with C, it seems to be a
>>windows or curses question. You'd have to ask in a windows programming
>>group, and/or a unix one (since curses was a unix library originally)
>
>I'm sure you're not going to agree, but this seems completely
>backwards. Curses has been ported to several operating systems,
>so no OS-specific group is really appropriate. There's no group
>for curses itself, and the one obvious thing about it is that it's
>a *C* library. So to many people this really is the obvious group
>for it.
>
An OS-specific programming group (as opposed to a language group) may
indeed be appropriate. comp.unix.programming (not comp.unix.os)
handles such questions, as does comp.programming.

Really, we can't deal with everything that's ever been coded in C. 

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Al Balmer
Balmer Consulting
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