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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: termcap str + params -> control seq. How?
Message-ID: <7022@segue.segue.com>
Date: 6 Apr 91 23:43:03 GMT
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In article <12738@hydra.Helsinki.FI> kankkune@cs.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) writes:
>Peter da Silva suggested using tgoto. I was a bit hesitated to use that
>as the (SunOS) manual page implies it might contain much special case
>handling for cursor addressing:

The SysV terminfo tparm() does the same special case handling.  The special
case handling is to deal with UNIX terminal driver peculiarities.
SysV terminfo provides a tgoto() for compatibility with termcap.
tgoto(cap, p1, p2) is exactly equivalent to tparm(cap, p2, p1) (note reversal
of arguments).