Subject: ANNOUCE: Curses module, version a9
From: William Setzer <[email-masked]>
Date: 25 Mar 1996 05:00:22 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc

Alpha 9 of the dynamic loadable curses module for perl5 is now
available.  You can get this package at any CPAN archive, or from:

   ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/math/wsetzer/Curses-a9.tar.gz

Mirrors take note:  This is also available as:

   ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/math/wsetzer/Curses/Curses-a9.tar.gz

This has been tested under Linux 1.2.13 and ncurses, and SunOS
4.1.3u1 with the SysV and BSD curses.  perlmenu v3.3 appears to
work with all of the above.

New in alpha 9:

   o Bug fixes, new hint files, a "cdemo" to help debugging, a
     second demonstration program.

Please note: If no serious problems crop up in this release, I'll
rename it Curses-1.00 in a couple of months and that'll probably be
the end of the supported maintenance on it.  I am presently working on
an "NCurses" module, based on the "ncurses" SysV-ish XSI-4-compliant
free libcurses maintained by Z.M. Ben-Halid and Eric Raymond.  This is
a very good curses, and standardizing on one particular implementation
allows one to (finally) write portable scripts.

I know it's been a long time since the last version; I apologize.
But hey, it's not been coming out any less frequently than perl. :-)

William