[Py-howto-checkins] CVS: pyhowto curses.tex,1.10,1.11

[Eric S. R. <es...@us...>]

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	curses.tex 
Log Message:
Some typo fixes, and a paragraph of motivation.


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  use widely differing codes, and often have their own minor quirks.
  
+ In a world of X displays, one might ask ``why bother''?  It's true
+ that character-cell display rerminals are an obsolete technology, but
+ there are niches in which being able to do fancy things with them are
+ still valuable.  One is on small-footprint or embedded Unixes that 
+ don't carry an X server.  Another is for tools like OS installers
+ and kernel configurators that may have to run before X is available.
+ 
  The curses library hides all the details of different terminals, and
  provides the programmer with an abstraction of a display, containing
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  functions that take either integer or 1-character-string
  arguments; these may be useful in writing more readable tests for
! your command interprers.  It also supplies conversion functions 
  that take either integer or 1-character-string arguments and return
  the same type.  For example, \function{curses.ascii.ctrl()} returns
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  functions that take either integer or 1-character-string
  arguments; these may be useful in writing more readable tests for
! your command interpreters.  It also supplies conversion functions 
  that take either integer or 1-character-string arguments and return
  the same type.  For example, \function{curses.ascii.ctrl()} returns
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  This HOWTO didn't cover some advanced topics, such as screen-scraping
! or capturing mouse events from an xterm inatance.  But the Python
  library page for the curses modules is now pretty complete.  You
  should browse it next.
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  This HOWTO didn't cover some advanced topics, such as screen-scraping
! or capturing mouse events from an xterm instance.  But the Python
  library page for the curses modules is now pretty complete.  You
  should browse it next.
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  The ncurses FAQ: \url{http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html}
- 
- Any other suggested references?
  
  \end{document}
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