The Curses extension to perl5, version 1.0 Copyright (c) 1994-1996 William Setzer All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Artistic License for more details. This is a dynamic loadable curses module for perl5. You can get this package at any CPAN archive, or from: ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/math/wsetzer/Curses-1.0.tar.gz Mirrors take note: This is also available as: ftp://ftp.ncsu.edu/pub/math/wsetzer/Curses/Curses-1.0.tar.gz Please see the INSTALL document for how to install it on your system, the Curses pod (located at the end of "Curses.pm") for incompatibilities with other Perl programs, and the end of this document for known compile or install problems. New in 1.0: o Hey, a real release! :-) o Note added in Makefile.PL to address the `top_env' problem when compiling for Solaris with gcc. o Another test program "gdc" from the ncurses distribution, ported quickly to perl. o IRIX hint file. o Better INSTALL instructions, I think. I don't remember when I wrote them, so you might only see what you saw in alpa 9. The "demo" program is for demonstration purposes only. If it references a function your version of curses doesn't have, wrap it in an "eval" and try again. Same goes double for the "gdc" program. Many thanks Malcolm Beattie and Larry Wall, without whose code I could steal I wouldn't have written this. Enjoy! William Setzer William_Setzer@ncsu.edu Known Problems -------------- Linux: getch() and getstr() don't work right under very old versions of ncurses. Please upgrade to a newer version.