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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: termcap or terminfo?
Message-ID: <12447@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 27 Mar 90 22:49:59 GMT
References: <251@mavrick.UUCP> <255@mavrick.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <255@mavrick.UUCP> daisy@mavrick.UUCP (daisy basto) writes:
>I think it's using terminfo though. When I tried compiling a C program with
>-ltermcap it couldn't find that library. And, by the way, I'm using SysV.

Try -ltermlib, which is the proper name for the termcap support library.
Or, try -lcurses; it it satisfies references to the tgetent() etc. calls
then it's probably terminfo-based, otherwise you would have needed both
-lcurses and -ltermlib for curses-using applications.