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From: seanf@sco.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
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Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 13 Dec 90 20:52:38 GMT
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In article <24221:Dec400:05:0790@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>Terminfo support? Where's System V's termcap support? Not an issue.

kithrup 34$ type captoinfo
captoinfo is /usr/bin/captoinfo

There's termcap support.  Not great, mind you (it's like saying the '386
runs C because you can get a C compiler), but it's there.

>. There's no color support, but there also aren't two
>color terminals in a thousand. 

You mean like color X terminals?  Running under, say, Suns?

Lots of people have color terminals, especially those running a variant of
BSD.

So why isn't there color support in termcap for it?

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