Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: TERMINFO to TERMCAP conversion. Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 90 20:00:13 GMT References: <9237@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <461@svcs1.UUCP> <=5R2.MAxds13@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Distribution: na Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 > It is not fixable without fixing all of the old crufty programs that > have hardwired 1024 arrays. Fix the old programs. If you can't, ignore the user's 1024-byte array and malloc your own. > | So add a "cp" to supplement "cm" with a more powerful syntax, and phase > | out "cm". Or just add a "%(expression)" form to "cm". > And then break all programs which use 'cm' as the specification calls > for. Those programs won't work on your Weirdcorp-100 terminal anyway, right? This doesn't differ in any way from the existing situation. -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v