Curses manual, example?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <11 at minya.UUCP> jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>Two questions today, folks.  First, does there exist a good
>intro/manual for the curses/termcap/terminfo package?  I have
>several sets of Unix manuals here, and none of them seem to
>have any curses documentation at all.

It's certainly in the SVR3 Programmer's Guide.

>They have very brief descriptions of the termcap/terminfo
>databases, though not nearly enough to tell one how to create
>an entry.

I think both the 4.3BSD and SVR3 terminfo/termcap manual entries,
which can hardly be described as "brief", contain sufficient
information.  If you have suggestions for improvement please mail
it to me for inclusion in a future revision.