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From: net@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Screen 2.0 change
Message-ID: <2992@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 27 Mar 91 11:53:02 GMT
References: <2921@kraftbus.cs.tu-berlin.de> <CLIPPER.91Mar21181432@det.csd.uwo.ca> <1991Mar27.004154.25200@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In article <1991Mar27.004154.25200@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA) writes:
> I can't see why the terminfo needs to be changed on the fly, anyway.  So the
> terminal can't blink --- terminfo/curses will either simulate it with another
> attribute or ignore it.

"screen" doesn't change termcap or terminfo entries "on the fly";
I already said that in an earlier article.  And it doesn't use
"curses"; why don't you first read the entire article thread before
posting a reply?

By the way, I think it is better to give applications running under
control of screen (or a similar program) a chance to decide for
themselves how they handle certain unsupported capabilities (i.e.
whether to ignore or simulate them) than to do that automatically in
an intermediate layer.