terminfo vs. termcap
Chris Torek
chris at mimsy.UUCP
Mon Jan 30 03:23:04 AEST 1989
In article <443 at kps.UUCP> peno at kps.UUCP (Pekka Nousiainen /DP) writes:
>Is it true that decoding say cursor addressing is significantly faster if
>terminfo is used?
No.
The true difference and reason for preferring terminfo to termcap is
that terminfo does more. It is not limited to a silly two characters
per entry, and it allows almost arbitrary computation of parameters,
neither of which is true of termcap.
To the user, all else is window dressing.
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