Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/12/11/22:51:05
From: | hgfernan AT usp DOT br (Hilton Fernandes)
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | XBase tools and DJGPP curses libs
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Date: | 12 Dec 1998 03:04:51 GMT
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hello all!
This is a copy of a message that i already posted to
news:comp.os.msdos.djgpp, but with a misleading subject:
exactly comp.os.msdos.djgpp :-(
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I'd like to write an app under MS-DOS that should be portable
to Linux subsequently. It will update and consult a
relatively small database. I'll use a DBF compatible library
for the (quasi) database management: i'm considering (GPL)
Xbase DBMS, that i found in
http://www.gbob.com/xbase/xbase.html
It is a C/C++ library that supports all dBase III+ features,
and some of dBase IV. It has even (Perl) tools for the
conversion of Clipper programs, at
http://www.gbob.com/xbase/Xb2cpp.html
Another very useful link is XBase Format File Description, at
http://www.e-bachmann.dk/docs/xbase.htm
that describes even the .ntx Clipper indexing format, not so
easy to find.
However, i still need screen formatting routines, since the
tools i found don't have it. It is a topic they need
volunteers to.
Please see the Help with the Xbase project page at
http://www.gbob.com/xbase/xbase_help.html
I'm considering to write the screen modules using curses.
So i ask the DJGPP users and developers:
1) do you know what's the DJGPP implemented curses that has
the greatest compatibility to the real (Linux) thing? AFAIK
there are at least two.
2) which one is the most stable, meaning that the one with
fewer bugs?
3) is there any screen formatting library based on curses
for DJGPP?
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Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl> was kind (and brave :-))
enough to read the message with the misleading subject and to
tell me that the answer for the three questions is PDcurses,
or Public Domain Curses, now at v2.3 and available at
ftp://ftp.lightlink.com/pub/hessling/PDCurses/
also you can check at:
ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/pc/msdos/programming/c/
ftp://ftp.qut.edu.au/pub/markh/PDCurses/
The official (simtel) DJGPP site has PDCurses v2.2
He informed me also that NCurses, used in Linux was not
ported to DJGPP.
I send this message again to the newsgroup to inform DJGPP
people about the interesting XBase project and to ask about any
higher level screen formatting library built upon curses.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
--Hilton
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