TERMINFO to TERMCAP conversion.
Peter da Silva
peter at ficc.uu.net
Wed Apr 11 07:37:53 AEST 1990
One of the other advantages of TERMCAP is that you can do the equivalent of:
putenv("TERMCAP", another_termcap_format_file);
tgetent(buffer, some_name);
stuff = tgetstr("zx", &area);
That is, the routines make up a general property-list type capability
that you can use in all sorts of ways. Consider printcap/modemcap/etc...
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