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| Book: | Programming with curses | |
| Subject: | Programming with curses Review | |
| Date: | 2003-08-20 10:06:54 | |
| From: | Shawn Boyette | |
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Rating:
 
Not only is this book an amazingly slender volume, containing 25 fewer pages than the XML Pocket Reference, but it's two decades out of date, covering the original Berkeley curses, meaning no info on color or mouse support or any of the other interesting and useful functionalities provided by ncurses, which has been the de facto curses standard since about 1993 and already existed as pcurses at the time of this book's writing. There is also, of course, no help to be found for people wanting to use curses via the Perl interface, since Perl didn't exist (in a released form) yet. In short: you're better off staring at the man pages until osmosis kicks in. |
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