Re: Curses Development Question

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

Peter Campbell <pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>1. Is there any modern documentation to the curses library which 
>discusses application programming (not just man pages)?

Your local book store may have a book on curses programming.

>2. Is there any documentation on how s-lang utilises curses or how 
>it goes about screen updating?

S-Lang does not uses curses in any way.  It reads the terminfo files
and performs the necessary necessary screen optimiizations itself.
The slang documentation describes the SLsmg interface (slang screen
management) that programs such as jed and slrn use.

Good luck,
--John