Sent 29Nov00 from jkohen to kinzler
+---------- Vshnu and Termcap ----------
| I was going to give your program a try, but it choked because my system
| doesn't have a termcap file. Sure I can generate one from the terminfo
| sources, but why going back to an obsolescent thing? Is there an easy
| way to convert VSHNU to using Curses instead? I could help doing so if
| you think it won't be a pain in the ass :)

Hi, Javier. Yes, vshnu uses Term::Screen which uses the termcap model.
One reason I choose that is because it requires just a single portable
Perl module file and I wanted to keep vshnu trivial to install on any
Unix. I knew it wouldn't port to non-Unices, but figured all Unices
could handle termcap, so I'm really curious about what type of system
you have where this is a concern?

I wonder if Curses won't lead to bigger installation/portability concerns,
though? Maybe the best solution is to enhance Term::Screen to work with
terminfo, too ...

If you want to work on adding Curses support to vshnu, it shouldn't
be hard -- vshnu's screen handling is very basic. I'd hope to see
it implemented as an optional alternative to Term::Screen, ie no new
required modules to run vshnu, etc.

Anyone got a better solution?

Steve

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