pdcurses readline-mingw backspace key in windows console

[Jon Ringle]

Chet Ramey wrote:
> And if I read the pdcurses maintainer's reply correctly, the response
is
> "if you want terminfo, look somewhere else."  Readline is not going to
> become a curses-based application, so it appears that using pdcurses
> with readline is a dead end.

What would you recommend then for a mingw readline-based application
that is run from a Windows console?

I suppose I could just provide my own terminfo stubs and link with that
to satisfy readline... The only reason that I was trying to link in a
curses library was to satisfy readline terminfo dependencies.

Jon