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.tp .(l C Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization: .fl A Library Package .i "Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold" .i "Elan Amir" Computer Science Division Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 .bi ABSTRACT .)l .(q .pp This document describes a package of C library functions which allow the user to: update a screen with reasonable optimization, get input from the terminal in a screen-oriented fashion, and independent from the above, move the cursor optimally from one point to another. .pp These routines all use the \*(tc \*(db to describe the capabilities of the terminal. .)q .b Acknowledgements .pp This package would not exist without the work of Bill Joy, who, in writing his editor, created the capability to generally describe terminals, wrote the routines which read this \*(db, and, most importantly, those which implement optimal cursor movement, which routines I have simply lifted nearly intact. Doug Merritt and Kurt Shoens also were extremely important, as were both willing to waste time listening to me rant and rave. The help and/or support of Ken Abrams, Alan Char, Mark Horton, and Joe Kalash, was, and is, also greatly appreciated. .i "Ken Arnold 16 April 1986" .pp The help and/or support of Kirk McKusick and Keith Bostic (public vi!) was invaluable in bringing the package ``into the 90's'', which now includes completely new data structures and screen refresh optimization routines. .i "Elan Amir 29 December 1992"
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@(#)intro.0 6.4 (Berkeley) 12/30/92
.tp .(l C Screen Updating and Cursor Movement Optimization: .fl A Library Package .i "Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold" .i "Elan Amir" Computer Science Division Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 .bi ABSTRACT .)l .(q .pp This document describes a package of C library functions which allow the user to: update a screen with reasonable optimization, get input from the terminal in a screen-oriented fashion, and independent from the above, move the cursor optimally from one point to another. .pp These routines all use the \*(tc \*(db to describe the capabilities of the terminal. .)q .b Acknowledgements .pp This package would not exist without the work of Bill Joy, who, in writing his editor, created the capability to generally describe terminals, wrote the routines which read this \*(db, and, most importantly, those which implement optimal cursor movement, which routines I have simply lifted nearly intact. Doug Merritt and Kurt Shoens also were extremely important, as were both willing to waste time listening to me rant and rave. The help and/or support of Ken Abrams, Alan Char, Mark Horton, and Joe Kalash, was, and is, also greatly appreciated. .i "Ken Arnold 16 April 1986" .pp The help and/or support of Kirk McKusick and Keith Bostic (public vi!) was invaluable in bringing the package ``into the 90's'', which now includes completely new data structures and screen refresh optimization routines. .i "Elan Amir 29 December 1992"