From the keyboard of mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu:
> 
> Another *serious* drawback of ncurses is that (at least last I knew) it
> hardly did any output optimization at all.

It does (or it did, or it should do ...), because i made the optimization
code actually work (and i KNOW it does optimization!).

Some neccessary fixes i made were lost or broken in 1.8x, and i became a
bit tired of fixing things i already had fixed that i had fixed :-(

If the optimization code is NOT available, mail in case you are interested,
although i still use (see above) the predecessor of 1.8x which was 0.73.

IMHO a (fixed) version of ncurses should go into the base release because
BSD curses is a real pain! (no religious flamwewars, please!)

btw: is there a PORTABLE way to handle F-keys in BSD curses ???

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
 Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined (Murphy)

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