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From: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: versaterm vs. vi on SunOS 4.1
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Date: 16 Jan 91 20:48:33 GMT
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> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.mac.comm: 16-Jan-91 Re: versaterm vs. vi
> on Sun.. Chuck Fisher@netcom.UUCP (900)

> John's right about this.  "termcap" is used on System V-based systems
> and "terminfo" on BSD-based systems.  I first had exposure to SV so I
> generically refer to terminal capability databases as 'termcaps'.  When
> SunOS becomes SVR4 compliant, there'll be lots of changes with which to
> contend, this being one of them.


Uh, nope.  You got it backwards.  termcap is the BSD type, terminfo is
the type used in recent versions of System V.  SunOS 4.0 and earlier
used termcap; apparently they are already changing in the direction of
SVR4 compliance and SunOS 4.1 uses terminfo.