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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] software quality and popularity
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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 03:15:35 +0200
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> > By the way, what is designer's opinion of porting a CUI like curses to Plan 9?
> 
> Let's ask Boyd.

curses?  a port of curses?  what would be the point?

been a long time since i looked into that particular mess, but it
was for use with glass ttys.  apart from it being rotten to the
core, it has too many functions/macros and i'm sure you'd run
into unicode and font problems.

the horror, the horror ...