Helios 1.3.1 and curses on the Transputer...

[Erik Baigar]

Hi,

I am happy, that some people are still dealing with Transputers and
preserve the technology by emulation on modern hardware! Over the
years I am still using Helios 1.3.1 on the Transputer and I came
accross a hint in the Helios manual for the Atari Transputer Work-
station:

http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/atw800/helioos.pdf

This manual states on page 113, that curses is included within
Helios and indeed there is a helios.lib in my lib directory.

But unfortunately, there is missing a curses.h file and thus c
complains on any curses specific keywords - even if it is called
with the -lcurses option as stated in the manual above.

Any hints or even an example, how this curses.lib is used on
the Helios transputer platform?

Thanks and best regards,

Erik.

[Mike B.]

Hi Erik

> Any hints or even an example, how this curses.lib is used on
> the Helios transputer platform?

http://www.transputer.net/zip/curses.zip

It's not a practical example, but contains the c-file, the missing
curses.h and a makefile.

-Mike

[Erik Baigar]

"Mike B." wrote:
> http://www.transputer.net/zip/curses.zip
>
> It's not a practical example, but contains the c-file, the missing
> curses.h and a makefile.

Hi Mike,

thanks for this link - it really contained the missing curses.h
file. After copying this to "1.31/include" I was indeed able to compile
the demo file using the command

"c curses.c -D_BSD -lcurses -ltermcap -o curses".

This file exactly contains what I need from the curses lib: Reading
individual characters from the kbd and thus it was very helpful...

Thanks again,

best regards,

Erik.

P.S. Thanks to Michael B., too - he sent me the same curses.h
independently via pm...