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From: tim@decvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: termcap question
Message-ID: <84@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jun-87 11:50:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  2 11:50:01 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Jun-87 06:12:32 EDT
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Why does the 43BSD documentation state that only certain strings in the
/etc/termcap file are able to use padding?  Padding is used to specify the 
amount of delay associated with the given string.  Similarly why does the
documentation claim that only certain strings are able to use P* to specify
variable delay amounts?

After rumaging through the source code it seems to me that any string
should have these capabilities.  Don't they all just call the same
routine tputs() which will first look for padding specifications and
then the string?  tputs() does not conditionally look for padding
only for certian strings.

Thanks all.