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From: krish@leland.Stanford.EDU (venkatraman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Accessing terminfo
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.022129.6348@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Apr 91 02:21:29 GMT
Organization: AIR, Stanford University
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Is there an API to get information from a terminfo data base?

I am trying to find programmatically, the device specific escape sequence associated with various printers. The required information is stored in terminfo data base. I can use 'tput' and 'popen' to get the required info, but that would be a very cumbersome method.

Please reply to this message at nitinm@kronos.nisd.cam.unisys.com
(128.170.2.8)

Thanks in advance.

nitin