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Re: two differents version of unctrl.h, one in cygwin-1.1.7 and one in ncurses-5.2


On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:14:12PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>In this case, I'm not sure exactly why newlib has a unctrl.h file,
>>though.  I'm willing to use the ncurses version instead if that is the
>>consensus.  The ncurses layout on my linux system seems to be different
>>than cygwin though so I don't see a clear correspondence.
>
>Newlib has a bunch of stuff thrown in that may be there just for
>historical reasons, or to support certain targets.  I don't see any
>other reason for newlib to contain unctrl.

Looking at newlib's version, I wonder if it is even usable in cygwin.
It seems to rely on a global variable that doesn't seem to be exported
by the DLL.

So, maybe the header file should be deleted in favor of ncurses.

cgf

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