1 04/15/88  UNIX/Multics Differences
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 3 The following differences from UNIX CURSES can be expected in the
 4 Multics CURSES library.
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 6 The default output mode for Multics is different than it is on a UNIX
 7 system.  For this reason, the default action of initscr and setupterm
 8 now includes initializing the proper modes for Multics.  Endwin and
 9 resetterm will reset the modes on exit.
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11 The user must ensure that the above entrypoints are called to
12 initialize and exit CURSES.
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15 The handling of signals such as INTR and QUIT are not inhibited by
16 raw mode, although the suspend characters are passed through
17 unprocessed.
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19 The usage of the entrypoints delay_output or _delay is strongly
20 discouraged due to the default character delays in place in the
21 Multics environment.  The use of an additional delay would alter the
22 expected response drastically.
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24 Usage of the multiple terminal handling capabilities of CURSES will
25 not work on Multics; the user will not have the ability to access
26 multiple terminals.  However, the program may be altered to use
27 message segments or some other Multics capability to perform its
28 communication.
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31 The user can set the terminal type via the setenv command.  For
32 example, "setenv TERM=vt102".