[sword-devel] console

Troy A. Griffitts scribe at crosswire.org
Mon Aug 9 14:16:56 MST 2004


Thanks Daniel,
 	I noticed at the first link you gave, for ncurses, that it lists 
cygwin.  What's the status of deploying a binary built with cygwin?  Is 
there a large framework that needs to acoompany the .exe?

 	-Troy.


On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Daniel Glassey wrote:

> On 9 Aug 2004, at 20:52, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>
>> Been using centericq for console IM while at work, and really am surprised 
>> at how useful it is.
>> 
>> A while back we had an effort, Ireneus, which aimed to be a console SWORD 
>> client.  It never made it to 1.0, IIRC.
>
> fwiw it was http://sourceforge.net/projects/irenaeus
>
>> Is there any interest in designing and writing a new console-based SWORD 
>> client?
>> 
>> I would like it to work on DOS, as well.  Don't know if ncurses would 
>> allow us to do that, or not.
>
> ncurses wouldn't
> http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#what_platforms
>
> but pdcurses would
> http://pdcurses.sourceforge.net/
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
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