termcap str + params -> control seq. How?

[Dick Heijne CCS/TS]

In article <577 at bria>,  writes:
> (...)
> you could always switch to the *real thing* and use terminfo instead. :-)
The only(?) disadvantage of this *real thing* is, that you can't introduce
new entries, which is quite simple in termcap. So far, I didn't find any
advantage of terminfo over termcap. After solving the two-character entryname
limit of termcap by writing my own libtermcap.a (with a variable buffersize
instead of the standard 1K and unlimited entryname-length) I keep prefering
termcap over terminfo for its greater flexibility.