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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: terminfo vs. termcap
Keywords: Why do we need two different terminal capability widgets?
Message-ID: <12993@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 Jan 89 18:30:56 GMT
References: <6966@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <6966@june.cs.washington.edu> mckenzie@uw-june.UUCP (Neil McKenzie) writes:

| This is really dumb.  It is really mysterious why there is even an
| /etc/termcap file and even a man page to go with it because the
| termcap file is just ignored.  What is even more unfriendly is that
| the source descriptions are compiled into an unreadable format.  This
| makes it very hard to study examples, since the source formats seem
| to be unavailable (or just well hidden), and reading the binary
| is no help.

  Actually, termcap is fully supported by the system, but the program
chose to use termlib instead. It sounds to me as though you are blaming
the o/s in some way for a design choice of an application.

  If you don't get the terminfo stuff I think I can find one for you,
from the X11 stuff.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me