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From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd,net.unix
Subject: termcap use in more
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Date: Thu, 15-Nov-84 13:19:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 15 13:19:29 1984
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I was incorporating the bug fixes from the net in more.c and noticed
something that seemed to me to be somewhat odd. It is perhaps not a bug
but more a question of why.

Setting the variable hardtab is done by:

	hardtabs = !(otty.sg_flags & XTABS);

Now, most everyone's tty flags are set by getty (the ht declaration in
gettytab). Getty doesn't know whether or not the terminal has hardware tabs;
It is just set (or reset) willy-nilly. The pt termcap variable, on the other
hand, presumably is correct about that feature. Why is not the termcap
consulted, rather than the tty structure? Am I missing something?
-- 
		Lyle McElhaney
		(hao,brl-bmd,nbires,csu-cs,scgvaxd)!denelcor!lmc