19.7 Extension modules

cursesmodule.c

-- Curses interface.

dlmodule.c

-- A highly experimental and dangerous device for calling arbitrary C functions in arbitrary shared libraries.

newmodule.c

-- Tommy Burnette's new module (creates new empty objects of certain kinds) -- dangerous.

nismodule.c

-- NIS (a.k.a. Sun's Yellow Pages) interface.

stdwinmodule.c

-- Interface to STDWIN (an old, unsupported platform-independent GUI package). Obsolete; use Tkinter for a platform-independent GUI instead.

The following are SGI specific:

clmodule.c

-- Interface to the SGI compression library.

svmodule.c

-- Interface to the ``simple video'' board on SGI Indigo (obsolete hardware).