From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Sat Dec 20 07:37:58 2003
Subject: Re: curses on octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: wtm at ono dot com, Octave_post <help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 07:22:19 -0600

On 19-Dec-2003, Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net> wrote:

| Of course, if we used libffi to provide direct access to the library,
| we could write the clean interface in Octave itself rather than C++.

Yes, I think that's a good way to approach things like this.  I would
recommend "hiding" the low-level library calls by prefixing them with
"__ncurses_" (or something) so they are not likely to stomp on other
function names.

jwe



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