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From: peno@kps.UUCP (Pekka Nousiainen /DP)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: terminfo vs. termcap
Keywords: Why do we need two different terminal capability widgets?
Message-ID: <443@kps.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jan 89 17:50:17 GMT
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Reply-To: peno@kps.UUCP (Pekka Nousiainen /DP)
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>>terminfo database because the latter is quicker and more efficient to 
>>process by curses(3X) than the /etc/termcap file.

>/etc/termcap is BSD.  AT&T came up with a compiled version which loads
>somewhat faster

Loading a (binary) termcap from a file is hardly faster than scanning it
from TERMCAP in the environment.  But I'm curious about the first statement.
Is it true that decoding say cursor addressing is significantly faster if
terminfo is used?

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peno@kps