Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!physiol!shocking
From: shocking@physiol.su.oz (Stephen Hocking)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: terminfo
Summary: terminfo & untic
Message-ID: <317@physiol.su.oz>
Date: 6 Sep 88 10:30:46 GMT
References: <508@altos86.UUCP> <8377@smoke.ARPA> <1553@mcgp1.UUCP> <8431@smoke.ARPA>
Organization: Physiology Dept., Univ. of Sydney, NSW, Australia
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In article <8431@smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Now, if your vendor neglected to supply you with the terminal
> description text files, that is the real problem.  They should be
> provided even with a binary distribution (although they don't need
> to be loaded onto the system disk).


Quite a few vendors now supply a program called "untic" instead of the
text files. "untic ansi" spurts out the dis-assembled version on
stdout. This is in a form which can be compiled by tic. What a lot of people
haven't mentioned is that the system V curses actually knows about standout
glitches and leaves a space as appropriate on the screen. Programming from
the terminfo side of things is a bit easier, as one doesnt have to
preallocate all those 1k buffers & go through painful tgetstrs, tgetnums etc
etc. The thing is all pre-defined.

	Stephen

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