Re: LYNX-DEV What is the difference?

[John E. Davis]

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 05:48:31 -0400 (EDT), "T.E.Dickey" <address@hidden> said:
>       slang
>               is a screen package that (for our purposes) emulates bits &
>               pieces of bsd curses with parts borrowed from some flavors
>               of System V curses.  (There's some advantages in it, but
>               since it does not follow any standard, it's best classified
>               as experimental).

It is just an alternative, portable (Unix, VMS, OS/2, DOS) screen
management library.  I would not call it experimental any more than I
would call the VMS SMG library experimental.  It is not curses and it
does not have to follow whatever standards exists for conforming
curses implementations.

--John
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