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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: terminfo
Summary: terminfo also handles input as well as output
Message-ID: <10544@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 25 Aug 88 14:29:56 GMT
References: <508@altos86.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <508@altos86.UUCP>, clp@altos86.UUCP writes:
< Why does terminfo exist?
< 	1) you can use the filesystem to do hashed
< 	   lookup of the requested terminal description
< 
< 	2) the file can contain some sort of "struct terminfo"
< 	   which can be read quicker than parsing some ascii file

3) terminfo handles input escape sequences, such as what the arrow
keys return and what the function keys return, keyboard remapping, and
other useful input features that termcap just don't have.
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	Christopher J. Calabrese
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
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