On 2019 Jun 29 19:25:06, you wrote to me:

 ml>> i never have understood the difference between curses and ncurses
 ml>> other than one starts with the letter 'n'...

 MK> The 'n' in ncurses stands for new, where new was back in 1993.  Obviously
 MK> new in this case is relative to BSD curses from back in 1980-1982-ish
 MK> depending on which curses is considered as the base curses that all other
 MK> curses evolved from, including ncurses.

ahhh... ok... i think i get it now...

 MK> Probably a more traditional micro emacs would link to -ltermcap
 MK> instead of -lcurses except that as we speak I don't have termcap
 MK> installed.  How about you?

i think i have it installed on one or two VMs but they're running BBSes...

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