terminfo vs. termcap

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <6966 at june.cs.washington.edu> mckenzie at uw-june.UUCP (Neil McKenzie) writes:

| This is really dumb.  It is really mysterious why there is even an
| /etc/termcap file and even a man page to go with it because the
| termcap file is just ignored.  What is even more unfriendly is that
| the source descriptions are compiled into an unreadable format.  This
| makes it very hard to study examples, since the source formats seem
| to be unavailable (or just well hidden), and reading the binary
| is no help.

  Actually, termcap is fully supported by the system, but the program
chose to use termlib instead. It sounds to me as though you are blaming
the o/s in some way for a design choice of an application.

  If you don't get the terminfo stuff I think I can find one for you,
from the X11 stuff.
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