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Re: lynx-dev Pasting text into the latest Windows 32 lynx
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dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Pasting text into the latest Windows 32 lynx |
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Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:20:19 -0500 (EST) |
>
> I know it is possible to paste text properly into lynx compiled using
> mingw32/gcc and the native crtdll.dll of Windows 95/98. The question
> is why can't the same thing be done to the distribution version?
>
> Is it the problem of the ncurses library, for instance? The latest
> slang for Windows library has an extremely good Windows-specific
> code for getting text and mouse clicks. It is one of those pieces
> of code that you need to talk to Microsoft mavens in Seattle to get,
> and I suspect it is missing from the ncurses library. Since it also
> can be compiled under the distribution's Borland C compiler (after you
> truncate the file names), I am surprised that ncurses is still being used.
they're not using ncurses for win32 (that's pdcurses)
I've seen nothing that quantifies a performance difference between
slang and pdcurses. Do you have measurements, or only opinions?
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Thomas E. Dickey
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