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From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Setting TERM
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 18:30:42 EDT
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> port.  Using ansi standard terminals, it is possible to dynamically determine
> the terminal type (we use this, albeit with mixed success since many terminals
> are not ansi standard yet).

I would think that if all the terminals were ANSI standard you wouldn't need
to find the terminal type, and you could throw termcap/terminfo out. Just
wondering how useful this knowledge is...

And another miniflame about people who don't want a feature that would be
useful to us (the small systems people) because it's not useful to them.