On 27 Jul 2001, at 21:11, Michael Neumann wrote:

> Kirk Lowery wrote:
> > Does Ruby (or an extension) have facilities for full-screen
> > (ncurses-like) apps? I'm looking for something that will let me print/get
> > a string at an arbitrary position in a (for example) 80x25 char grid on
> > the screen.
> > 
> > (I've looked at RAA/FAQ/RubyCookBook.org/RubyGarden and searched the
> > ruby- talk archives, but haven't come up with anything) that looked
> > promising...)
> 
> It comes with Ruby by default.
> See ext/curses.

Ah! I'm running ruby 1.6.4 (2001-06-04) [i386-cygwin], and the "ext" 
directory doesn't come with it. There is a module "curses.so" in the i386-
cygwin directory. I downloaded the source tarball and there it was, with 
an example program, no less!

Next question: for the Curses module, and apparently for all of the ext 
tree, there doesn't seem to be any other documentation besides the 
examples given and the C source (e.g., curses.c). Am I right?

Best wishes,

Kirk

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Kirk E. Lowery, Ph.D.                         <klowery / wts.edu>
Associate Director, Westminster Hebrew Institute
General Editor, Project "eL", The XML Leningrad Codex
Chair, Computer Assisted Research Group, Society of Biblical Literature