General Programming Concepts: Writing and Debugging Programs

AIX 3.2 Curses Compatibility

• In AIX 4.3, curses is not compatible with AT&T System V Release 3.2 curses.
• In versions prior to AIX 4.3, curses is compatible with AT&T System V Release 3.2 curses.
• In versions prior to AIX 4.3 curses have been kept in a form useful for supporting existing binaries only. This new change was made to provide support for color and to increase application portability to AIX systems.
• Applications already running under AIX 4.3 will not operate using the old curses.
• Applications compiled, rebound, or relinked may need source code changes for compatibility with the AIX Version 4 of curses. The newer curses library does not have or use AIX extended curses functions.
• Applications requiring multibyte support may still compile and link with extended curses. However, because the extended curses library may be removed in the future, use of the extended curses library is discouraged except for applications that require multibyte support.