[Coco] vim for coco3 os9 is now in Genes-os9-stf

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 09 November 2014 15:05:56 Willard Goosey did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 08:59:39AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 November 2014 08:45:49 Bill Pierce via Coco did opine
> > 
> > > it's there. It's in "3rdparty/packages/uemacs"
> 
> I don't know if this is the source for the binary I have or not... I
> don't think so mine is IIRC hard-coded for term CoCo and doesn't need
> termcap.
> 
> > The makefile is for os9/68000, and it needs TERMCAP.  I wonder if the
> > dynastar version of termset would work says he to no one in
> > particular.
> 
> Sorry no, termset was Microware attempting to re-invent this
> particular wheel, and it didn't work out for them. Termset was quickly
> abandoned in favor of real termcap. That said, if you have a termset
> programming library? Would like a copy!
> 
> > Can someone explain to me what "TERMCAP" was defined as all those
> > years ago?
> 
> Termcap is the TERMinal CAPacities library for C. Does all the
> low-level grinding for supporting cursor-addressable terminals. (And
> some of those crap old terminals needed a LOT of grinding!)
> 
> The OS-9 port is old GNU code so it works but may be considered a bit
> memory-hungry. ;-)
> 
> It's on RTSI or I have it at
> http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/os9/termcapLII.lzh (this may be a slighly
> small version, I'd managed to remove a K or so of dead code, but off
> the top of my head I don't remember if this archive is mine or the
> original.)
> 
> To actually USE a termcap program you'll need the support files, most
> easily gotten at http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/os9/ctuser.lzh
> 
> Willard

Thank you Willard, marked FFR.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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