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• Subject: Re: Inside Redhell: Microsoft XAML Blogger Round-Up
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:39:24 -0500
• In-reply-to: <20031111233256.GN23517@s...>

jcowan@r... (John Cowan) writes:
>Bob Wyman scripsit:
>
>>  It may be that these problems weren't addressed on the
>> Microsoft or *nix platforms until very recently. 
>
>Unix has had the "curses" library since 1980, which provided
>terminal-independence for character-based CRT-type terminals.
>"Cursed" programs are still quite common on modern Unixes, although
>terminal-type diversity is no longer very important.
>I'm using one (mutt) to write this very email.

Hmm... yes. O'Reilly's 1986 book on the subject is still in print:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/curses/

There's a reader complaint that it's out of date, but still, I hope our
XML books last as long.

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  • Re: Inside Redhell: Microsoft XAML Blogger Round-Up
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