TERMINFO to TERMCAP conversion.

[Hamish Macdonald]

>>>>> On 10 Apr 90 14:26:33 GMT, meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) said:

Michael> In article <=5R2.MAxds13 at ficc.uu.net> peter at ficc.uu.net
Michael> (Peter da Silva) writes:
| I said: [Termcap is OK, and it's extensible]
| 
| > It's not all that extensiable, it still has the absurd 1024 byte limit
| > (and yes I have run into that limit with a vt320 description).
| 
| True, but that's fixable. I've already suggested having a compiled version
| (basically a hashed index table into the entries).

Michael> It is not fixable without fixing all of the old crufty programs that
Michael> have hardwired 1024 arrays.

Didn't all these 'crufty old programs' have to be 'fixed' to use
terminfo rather than termcap??  Seems to me to be the same problem.
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