Sounds like somewhere some one started with a strong MSM-linux bias IMOFact is, according to Computer Science, one can't have an O.S. w/o some form of Package System. I know and love those few unique things about BSD that can be done with ed and vi, esp. with a rescue slice.
BUT ANYWAY PKGSRC is strongly -- it is in fact -- biased toward ncurses,It's like it's the deliberate choice of Researchers to tweak the particular "make dot conf" or m-k dot conf syntax,(*) to make, damn, sure either, one learns the syntax, rather than just enjoy reading it, or like ncurses will be downloaded, and built, if not the 1st day, in the 1st week, for sure, with, like four nines!
Seriously.Here's an example, that will, both suck in ncurses, and prove U DONT need ncurses, just for color. So build vms-empire via pkgsrc, then cd to the work directory, and then apply this attached ed-script, or just look at the attached picture.
Attachment:
empireFIX.ed.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
(*) every so often
I think it should be more widespread. There's already a third-party port (https://github.com/sabotage-linux/netbsd-curses), maybe there should be a tarball somewhere on NetBSD.org?
ncurses is available in pkgsrc for those who need/desire it.Having it in base... well, I know I am biassed but it does mean that we potentially have a monoculture when it comes to curses.I wouldn't really term it "portable" more like "the same bugs everywhere" which is not really the same :)----- Original Message ----- From: "Cág" <ca6c%bitmessage.ch@localhost> To: <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost> Cc: Sent: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 14:19:36 -0500 Subject: Portable curses -- caóc