wmcbrine/PDCurses
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A curses library for environments that don't fit the termcap/terminfo model.
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…of Nethack, contains a fair subset of curses, and pdcurses is from 01987 according to the bottom of https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses/blob/master/docs/HISTOR... . But on the IBM, curses mostly solved the problem of porting Unix software…
comment by kragen · 2025-11-03 · in Writing FreeDOS Programs in C -
…it's hard to use something if you don't know it exists. It does look like there is a recent port: https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses So my guess is curses was not available to DOS at the time, only Unix systems.
comment by xx__yy · 2025-11-03 · in Writing FreeDOS Programs in C