TFDDs - customizing `writeln' (Was: Legal Change in GPC ?)_(re)

Thu, 8 May 1997 11:31:25 +0100 (WET DST)

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Frank Heckenbach wrote:

> 
> Peter Gerwinski wrote:
> 
> > If somebody who knows C wants to implement this for GPC, here are
> > some ideas:
> 
> > We are still looking for somebody who wants to implement a portable,
> > Borland-compatible `CRT'.  (But our `Graph' Unit, "BGI2GRX", works on
> > Linux at least.:)
> 
> I'd have some ideas for both, I only need one thing: time... -- perhaps
> in late summer/autumn, let's wait and see... -- unless someone wants to
> do it earlier. (Actually, I'd probably need some help on portability
> questions and other things, we'll see...)

I did some work for a UNIX based CRT unit some time ago. However, if you
want to do this good (portable), you have to implement both termcap and
terminfo support. I took the easy way out and used the 'slang' library
(The 'Midnight Commander' uses it). This is overkill.

But for me, spare time is limited too, I'm currently finishing up the
integration of GPC in the GCC sources and then I'd like to move on to an
automated GPC compiler test suite. But "later in the year", some
"portability help" should definately possible :-)

Greetings,
JanJaap

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Jan-Jaap van der Heijden (janjaap@Wit381304.student.utwente.nl)