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From: david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: termcap documentation
Message-ID: <3219@sun.uucp>
Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 16:25:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 16:25:15 1986
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In article <6012@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes:
>> The 4.1BSD TERMCAP(5) documentation is very obsolete.
>> A much improved edition should be distributed with 4.3BSD.
>
>I trust that no one will be misled by Doug Gwyn's contribution.  The 4.1BSD
>termcap(5) documentation is utterly up-to-date for those of us running 4.1BSD
>(and for folks interested in writing programs that will port to 4.1BSD systems);
>attempts to use 4.3BSD documentation on 4.1BSD systems would be catastrophic.

Unfortunately, the 4.1bsd termcap man page *is* obsolete with respect
to the 4.1bsd code.  When I was running 4.1bsd, I would have been lost
without the updated documentation provided by Mark Horton (thanks again).

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