Purpose: detail some of the packages intended to provide a Tcl
interface to curses.

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curses in this case is '''NOT''' the things that you say when you
cannot get [Tk] interfaces working...

Instead, it is a C library designed to provide the C developer a
level of abstraction for writing software to drive character
based displays.


There are various attempts to define a Tk interface based on curses. Related software:

   * [Miscellaneous Tcl procs (Dillinger)]
   * [ck]
   * [CTk]
  
 What: Network Management / SNMP
 Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/tcl_nm-1.03/tcl-nm-1.03.tar.gz ???
        ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/tcl_curses.shar.gz
 Description: An initial implementation of an API for SNMP.  This is currently
        being reworked in the light of SNMPv2.  Please check with the mail-
        server for current status.  Send a help line to the mailserver
        for details of signing up for the SNMP Tcl mailing list.
        Also note that packages such as
        tcl_curses, tcl_dbm, tcl_mib, tclnm, and tcl_snmp or tk_snmp
        are available.
        Contact the mailing list to ask for details.
 Updated: 10/1998
 Contact: mailto:majordomo@data.fls.dk (Mailing service daemon)
 
 What: Tcl Extensions by Michael Schwart
 Where: http://www.du.edu/%7Emschwart/tcl-tk.htm
 Description: This page contains pointers to a number of Tcl extensions,
        including a Tk that uses Curses,
        GD (Image file rendering based on the Tom Boutell's gd library
        - supports PNG and GIF) - version 0.1.0.4,
        GDI (Graphics device drawing similar to Tk canvas, but for Windows)
        - version 0.9.8.3,
        HDC (Name/address manipulations) - version 0.2.0.1,
        WMF (Windows metafile context for copying to clipboard)
        - version 0.1.0.2,
        Tkmsmail (MAPI and CMD mail interfaces, allowing Windows programs to
        send mail) - version 1.0.1.1 (now available from the tcl core's
        CVS repository and is TEA compliant) ,
        Print (printer contexts, providing invocation of common printer
        dialogs and exposes the device context for supporting interaction
        with other platform specific drawing primitives - Windows and Unix) -
        version 0.9.5.2,
        Profile (.INI file manipulations - Windows and Unix) - version 0.6.0.2,
        Signal (simple signal processing - Unix) - version 1.4,
        Winexec (Windows exec command which can properly launch detached
        16 bit and DOS apps as well as Win32 apps) - version 0.6.0.1,
        a .zip bundle of Tcl 8.2 DLLs with NT stubs.
 Updated: 06/1999
 Contact: mailto:mschwart@nyx.net
 
 What: TUI for Windows NT
 Where: From the contact
 Description: Contact indicates that he is working on a port of Ncurses and
        the XTerminal 0.6.9 interface) to Windows NT for use by Tcl.
 Updated: 08/1999
 Contact: mailto:davygrvy@bigfoot.com (David Gravereaux)
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There are several choices for the "service library", including
ncurses and pdcurses.
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2004-02-10 [VI] A [Minimalist Curses] package.