termcap format question
Richard L. Goerwitz
goer at midway.uchicago.edu
Sat Jun 16 05:07:35 AEST 1990
I'm having a little trouble understanding how the curson addressing
capabilities are specified in /etc/termcap. %d seems pretty clear,
as do %2, %3, and %. I don't believe I am grasping how the following
escapes work:
%+x
%n
%B
%D
The manual seems to be telling me that %+x adds x to the valued spe-
cified. X thus becomes the offset. What sort of type checking is
done on x, though? Are there size restrictions? If I want to spe-
cify an offset of 1, say, can I write %+\001? Do I use a character?
With %n, %B, and %D I just don't understand what sort of terminals
would need to use them and why.
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