Reading termcap database other than termcap

[Horst Laumer]

mjr at hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:

>	I have a hacked up copy of the printcap code from the BSD 'lpr'
>command that implements a "caplib" library - generic "termcap" capabilities.
>It differs from the "standard" termcap in that it wants to know the sizes
>of the buffers passed to it, and checks for overflow. It also doesn't
>support the egregious tc= kludge. There's no support for grabbing the
>entry out of the environment, but that shouldn't be very hard at all.
>[the way BSD does that also is a kludge - getting it out of the environment
>or not should be done at a higher level than in capgetent(), IE: if there
>is no XXXXCAP in the environment, *then* it uses capgetent(), etc]

>	If anyone wants a copy, let me know.

I would be very interested in a copy. BTW, wouldn't it be good posting it ?
(Rich Salz and c.s.u., ok, ok)

thanks ahead
hl

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