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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.programming
Subject: Re: encapsulating directory operations
Followup-To: comp.programming
Date: 26 May 2025 04:05:25 GMT
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On Mon, 26 May 2025 08:40:50 +1000, "Paul Edwards" <mutazilah@gmail.com>
wrote in <101069l$1k3nm$1@dont-email.me>:

>> The idea that you can't do that without a constant defined in your
>> language standard is just silly.
> 
> It may be silly from your perspective, but for me it is crucial.

I've x-posted this to comp.programming, and set followup-to there.

I'm wondering why your control-character-handling wouldn't be better
handled with a curses library.  IIRC, back in my DOS days (early 90's),
there was a curses library for DOS.

A quick look around found this: https://pdcurses.org/ ...which
includes DOS support.

If it doesn't handle EBCDIC terminal escapes, consider extending it.

I don't know anything about microemacs, but if it doesn't use a curses-like
library to handle different terminal types, I'd be surprised.  I see that
Linus' uemacs uses curses:

   https://github.com/torvalds/uemacs/blob/master/tcap.c

Again, followup-to comp.programming, as this is definitely off-topic
for comp.lang.c.

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