[Coco] curses, foiled yet againRe: Virtual Memory in OS-9

[William Schaub]

Willard Goosey wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:47:47PM +1000, Bob Devries wrote:
>   
>> The source code of curses.c contains the following:
>>
>> /*-------------------------------------------------------*
>> * CURSES.C: Copyright (c) 1987, Allen I. Holub. *
>> * All rights reserved. *
>> *-------------------------------------------------------*
>> * *
>> * Adapted for OS9 from an article in DDJ 7/87. *
>> * R. Waggoner *
>> * *
>> *-------------------------------------------------------*
>>
>> If someone knows the whereabouts of Mr. Waggoner, maybe we can consult him?
>>     
>
> We did make some progress on this the last time it came up.  We
> determined that the source had tab characters (which is "move the
> cursor up one line" in windint terminal escapes), that the last line
> of the file didn't end in a newline (a major pain to fix under OS-9)
> and, IIRC, there was a end-of-line problem (I think it was a dos text
> file?) 
>
> Once all that easy stuff got fixed, though, it just sorta got
> dropped.  
>
> I haven't had the time to mess with it.  I guess no one else has,
> either.  It may be running up against some of the subtler bugs in the
> C complier, so ansifront might help.
>
> Willard
>   
What is ansifront? I'm guessing its either a replacement for pass 1 of 
the compiler or it translates ansi C source into K&R C sources. is this 
an os9 program available on rtsi or something I can run under 
Solaris,Linux,whatever?