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From: dick@ahds.UUCP (Dick Heijne CCS/TS)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: termcap str + params -> control seq. How?
Summary: terminfo? termcap!
Message-ID: <1931@ahds.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 91 09:51:51 GMT
References: <12587@hydra.Helsinki.FI> <577@bria>
Organization: Ahold NV, Zaandam, Netherlands, EEC
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In article <577@bria>,  writes:
> (...)
> you could always switch to the *real thing* and use terminfo instead. :-)
The only(?) disadvantage of this *real thing* is, that you can't introduce
new entries, which is quite simple in termcap. So far, I didn't find any
advantage of terminfo over termcap. After solving the two-character entryname
limit of termcap by writing my own libtermcap.a (with a variable buffersize
instead of the standard 1K and unlimited entryname-length) I keep prefering
termcap over terminfo for its greater flexibility.