P. S. on using mingw32 with cygwin32 and doing libslang properly - slw32tty.c [0/1]

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Attached is a simplified version of slw32tty.c for use with the slang 
library.

P. S. on the simplified slw32tty.c:

That `getchar()' in slw32tty.c should read `_getch()', and people using slang 
on Win32 should get some advice:

1.  If you compile slang with libtermcap, libtermcap has to have termcap.c 
edited so that the code has the _exact_ address of the `termcap' file in file 
notation that the particular system can follow.  Otherwise, slang programs 
linked using libtermcap will crash.

2.  You need to load ansi.sys using your system config.h file.  Without 
ansi.sys, your dos window will have lots of escape sequences printed in it,
but no graphics.  With ansi.sys, you may get a full-screen window with 
double-wide characters when you run the worm.exe test program, but it will be 
in color, and it will do the wormy things.  This probably means that 
autoexec.bat has to have a `set TERM=ansi' and an appropriate 
`c:\etc\termcap' file with an ansi entry

3.  You could get rid of sldostty.c and tell people to use slw32tty.c 
instead.  You could also get rid of the other dos file, and use the file list 
in modules.unx, minus slunix.c and slutty.c, plus slw32tty.c
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