Ansi termcap entry
Aaron Burns
aaron at bbm.UUCP
Thu Jan 18 02:03:31 AEST 1990
In article <4622 at questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> jeff at questar.UUCP (Jeff Holmes) writes:
>
> I was wondering if anyone knows why the "ansi" termcap
> distributed with Xenix 386 2.3.2 has some of the capabilties
> represented using capital letters?
> PU='page up' PD='page down'
> What's the reasoning behind this?
In the first page of the TERMCAP (M) entry of my Xenix 2.3.2 User's
Reference, "The codes beginning with uppercase letters (except for CC)
indicate XENIX extensions". ie: RTM
The reasoning is to warn that what you are doing (if you use these
capabilities) is non-standard and may not be portable.
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