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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;)
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Subject: Re: infocmp
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Date: 5 Feb 91 18:18:58 GMT
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In <1991Feb4.165347.8462@tsa.co.uk> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes:

>> (I don't look forward to transferring the compiled entry to another
>> machine and try to get anything reasonable out of it...)

>Well, it should work.  To quote term(4)

>	  The [compiled terminfo] format has been chosen so that it
>	  will be the same on all hardware.  An 8 or more bit byte is
>	  assumed, but no assumptions about byte ordering or sign
>	  extension are made.

It really does work: the A/UX 2.0 terminfo files work unmodified on SUn3 and 
Sun4 machines.
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