Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!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 21:37:53 GMT References: <9237@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <461@svcs1.UUCP> <12538@smoke.BRL.MIL> <710@mwtech.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 One of the other advantages of TERMCAP is that you can do the equivalent of: putenv("TERMCAP", another_termcap_format_file); tgetent(buffer, some_name); stuff = tgetstr("zx", &area); That is, the routines make up a general property-list type capability that you can use in all sorts of ways. Consider printcap/modemcap/etc... -- _--_|\ `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ 'U` \_.--._/ v