On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:12:34PM -0800, cuong tran wrote: | Hi, | | | I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and | most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package | of functions in the UNIX library for use in C and C++ programs. Is there | any way I can download these funtions and use them from my home computer | ( i want ncurses to be run on PC.) because sometime I can't connect to my | school.
Yes. Take a look at www.cygwin.com. The ncurses library still requires a POSIX system, but the cygwin folks have a very good emulation layer for MS Windows. | Can I install Linux on my home computer and then compile and run | C programs using ncuses? Yes. I recommend linux over cygwin (the old house-on-the-sand example, if the foundation is shaky then it is impossible to build a solid structure on top of it). | And how can I install Linux and Windows on the | same machine? Either using separate hard disks (recommended if you don't want to (risk) re-install(ing) windows) or on separate partitions of a single disk. I've done it both ways. Once the systems are installed you set up a bootloader that allows you to choose with OS to boot. -D -- It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes at least a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here.