hcache and display options

[kevin shell]

In article <20191007084346.GC24947 at bastion.zyxst.net> you wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 03:07:16PM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
> [...]
> 
> thanks for the pointers. Does slang have any advantages over ncurses though? I
> have both, and use slang in slrn. There is ncurses in the OS and a later
> version is in ports (FreeBSD) 

slang is a scripting language and can be extended,
if you are a power user you can extend programs using
the embeded slang interpreter.

curses/ncurses is used by most unix terminal programs,
it's universal in unix systems.