Curses Bug? (4.2 BSD)

[Brett Galloway]

I saw the 4.2 curses buglist posted by Mike Laman at the end of October;
however, I ran into a problem not addressed therein.  In a program which
uses curses I want to use a terminal capability which curses has not
read into its external capability list; namely I want the value of the
cs (scrolling region) and bl (audible bell) capability strings.  I do
not want to have to read termcap AGAIN, since curses has already done so
via initscr().  My manual entry for curses (3X) includes a function

	getcap(name)		get terminal capbility name

This function has a type declaration in curses.h:

	char	*getcap();

However, it is NOT a symbol supplied by our curses library (either libcurses.a
or libtermcap.a); when I try to use it, the loader notes that "getcap" is
undefined.

Am I missing something obvious?  It seems like one should be able to reference
the terminal entry that curses has read, without having to reread it.  For
the time being, I will just write my own getcap() function which will
reread the termcap entry.  Any help for a better solution would be
appreciated, however.

Thanks in advance.

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Brett Galloway
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