Re: screen blanker, curses

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%jocelyn.rhein.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 11:24:55AM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
>  I am looking for a console screen blanker. Is there one for NetBSD?

If you are using NetBSD/amiga, NetBSD/sun3 or NetBSD/sparc:
man screenblank

>  On a more general note, are there any plans to replace the system curses
>  with ncurses? The ncurses ANNOUNCE statement has he following to say:
...

>  Mid-June 1995, that was over four years ago.  The current curses seem to
>  be extremely limited. One cannot even compile mutt with it.

That's why the mutt package requires the ncurses package. As mutt isn't in
the core distribution, this isn't a major problem :-)

Discussion about some of the limitations of ncurses and plans to overcome them
have taken place in ... err... current-users? You can use the search engine
at http://mail-index.netbsd.org to find it.

        -is