[Tfug] Client/Server Linux Application

[Brian Murphy]

Quoting keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>:
> I'm assuming ncurses is considered text based.

Yes.  The headline in the FSF software directory says: "Ncurses -
Displays and updates text on text-only terminals."
<http://www.gnu.org/directory/libs/ncurses.html>

Let me warn you that writing terminal apps on unix is very...unixy. 
You'll have to do a lot of reading and experimenting to get a handle on
it.


> I was thinking it would be nice to create an app using C and ncurses
> running on Debian and using a data server such as MySql....... with a
> cient on a win98 desktop.

A nice thing about this is that your app will work with any client that
can SSH with a halfway decent vt emulation.  Take some time before the
coding starts to design good interfaces between the application
components. (user interface, database, business logic, etc)

Brian

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