UNIX WordPerfect Terminal Database

[Sean Eric Fagan]

In article <P-D+!0G at jwt.UUCP> john at jwt.UUCP (John Temples) writes:
>Is curses sufficiently broken on enough platforms supported by WP that
>they had to go and write their own?

It has been, at certain points in the past.  Basicly, people ended up adding
special fields to termcap, because it (and curses) didn't support them
itself, and they would therefore have to have their own termcap file,
ofttimes in its own special format (*sigh*).

For example:  there is no way in terminfo (as of yet) to differentiate
between a normal function key and a shifted function key.  Yes, there are
cases where it is both possible and desirable to tell the difference
(scancode terminals, for example).  So, what do you do?  All terminfo will
tell you is what all of the function key strings are; quite often, at least
some of those *will* be shifted/ctrld/alted/hypered/whatever function keys,
but there is no way to tell.

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