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From: rlin@cs.ubc.ca (Robert Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: ISC xtermcap bug
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Date: 9 Sep 90 20:17:57 GMT
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I've found what appears to be a bug in ISC 2.0.2's xtermcap library.
It will not properly read a termcap entry that starts with a backslash
(octal escaped entry). For example, the entry GV=\63 would return as
NULL by tgetstr, whereas in truth it should return a "3" string.

Does anyone know of a public domain termcap library (with source of course)
that works right? If so, please point me in the right direction.

-Robert Lin <rlin@cs.ubc.ca>