termcap str + params -> control seq. How?

[Peter da Silva]

In article <12738 at hydra.Helsinki.FI> kankkune at cs.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) writes:
> However, like Peter da Silva notes, this is a system V routine, and for
> portability my best bet is to use tgoto (and hope the cursor addressing
> special code doesn't mess things up).

Reasonable hope. 90% of terminals these days use ANSI X3.64 sequences, and
most of the remainder use ADM3a type sequences. Neither of these traditions
involve the characters that mess up tgoto. I use tgoto to parse "cs" all the
time, no problem.

Yes, there are weird problems with termlib.
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