Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!wb3ffv!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake From: shwake@raysnec.UUCP (Ray Shwake) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Infocmp vs. Untic Keywords: simtel20 Message-ID: <238@raysnec.UUCP> Date: 7 Feb 91 00:57:40 GMT References: <1991Jan31.173912.21579@nada.kth.se> <18822.27af83bd@windy.dsir.govt.nz> Organization: IRS/CI - Technical Solutions Branch Lines: 15 sramtrc@windy.dsir.govt.nz writes: >What's the difference between untic and infocmp? >Several tools like this are available from simtel20.arpa 26.2.0.74 >in the PD2: directory. I forget which subdirectory. They are probably >originally from comp.sources.unix. Well, the newest untic I've been able to find is about four years old and does not recognize many parameters that have been added to terminfo in the interim. infocmp is also a much more comprehensive tool with numerous options. It can, for example, generate termCAP source, or generate verbose parameter names in the source. ----------- uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech