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From: kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen)
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Subject: Re: How do you link the terminfo library on SysV.2?
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 04:23:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 04:23:40 1987
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In article <2316@bnrmtv.UUCP> rapin@bnrmtv.UUCP (Eric Rapin) writes:
>I have a program which was developed on 4.3BSD which
>uses -ltermcap as a ld option.
>I know that SysV uses terminfo not termcap but I've yet
>to figure out how to link to it.

I know it sounds a little silly but you'll have to use the curses,
library -lcurses to use terminfo (or the interpreted termcap routines).

>terminfo seems to have a strange organization that is unlike
>any "typical" library.

The organization in terminfo is that there is fixed addresses for each
known "terminfo" attribute and the routines just addresses themeselves
into the compiled terminfo entry with the wanted attribute address.
This organization has it's advantages in speed: once you know your
terminal type you have a file containing only the attributes for this 
terminal and looking up the attribute value by random access. But also
the disadvantage of not being able to add new attributes to the files.

>Is this standard SysV or could I be dealing with an idiosyncracy
>of Amdahl UTS?

This is pretty much standard SYSV - though there is PD packages providing
the termcap/termlib libraries using good ol' /etc/termcap and/or terminfo.
Certain vendors also include BSD enhancements in form of the mentioned
libraries.

						Kim Chr. Madsen.