Subj : Re: Interested in starting out
To   : NuSkooler
From : apam
Date : Sat Dec 03 2022 02:32 pm

 > With the above you end up with a 'door' that's generic enough to
 > pretty much work on any system, but uses modern terminal kits and
 > techniques making life easier there as well. 

You could do that, but you'll have to implement dropfile handling,
connection timeouts and time-left handling yourself.

It's really the learning curve you want to go with, if it's something
like ncurses, you can use the knowledge elsewhere.

For magidoor, it's pretty much some convienence functions, dropfile
handling and writing to either a socket or stdio depending on OS, plus
the timeout handling - I wonder if you could then use ncurses on top of
that for window drawing etc.

Andrew


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