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Larry Wake lkw at csun.UUCP
Mon Sep 5 05:51:08 AEST 1988


In article <8431 at smoke.ARPA>, Pnews swears gwyn at brl.arpa
(Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) wrote:
>Sure there is documentation.  It's TERMINFO(4) in the manual, which
>closely approximates the Berkeley TERMCAP(5) manual entry.

...so closely that it even helpfully suggests using "tset"...

Both the terminfo and curses documentation for System V could stand a
thorough going-over to eliminate the lingering Berkeley-isms, or at
least indicate them as such.  Or even better, implement them...
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