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    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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