> > If anyone needs me to put money where my mouth is, I offer $100 via > > PayPal if someone in charge wants financial coercion to avoid putting in > > the X/graphical/ncurses crap for console applications. I'm dead serious. > > I'll see your bet, and raise you $150.
Wow, so you're saying that you add $50 to my offer? If that's so -- nice. As it is, things work for me now, but just in case someone wanted to break it (it seems not!), I'd be paying to stop the breakage from getting into a release. Whitemailing of sorts ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-crime#Anti-crime > The requirements are: > 1) text mode win32 apps should not invoke curses unless they start using > cursor motion Second that. > 2) text mode win32 apps should not use user unless they dynamically load > user32.dll Yep. > 3) whatever solution is picked, it should be similar to the one used on > Windows NT/2000/XP No clue here. > 4) wine should be able to run a windows telnet server > that invokes cmd to parse commands without tripping over itself. Yes. Kuba