Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:24:45 -0600 From: Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: terminfo on freebsd Message-ID: <20020110192445.A25817@allusion.net> In-Reply-To: <20020110161544.GD94285@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:15:45AM -0600 References: <20020109195755.A15270@allusion.net> <20020110161544.GD94285@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 10:15:45AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 09), Jordan DeLong said: > > are there any plans for converting freebsd's ncurses install to use > > terminfo instead of termcap? is there some reason for sticking to > > termcap instead of terminfo? (disk space, etc?) and is there an easy > > method (i.e. ports or simple make install from somewhere in /usr/src) > > to convert a freebsd system to use terminfo? > > Mainly because there is no need to move to terminfo. Why have your > terminal entries in 2000 tiny files in an unreadable binary format > that's different for each OS, when you can have them all in a single > text file that all OSes can read? > > Is there some reason to convert to terminfo? > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com ah I guess that was (or should've been) part of the question. So then the only real advantage to terminfo would be the ability to have entries that are > 2K or something? (in which case i don't suppose it matters, because all the terminals i use are in the termcap db and fit in the size limitation). I guess I'll stick with termcap, then... thanks -- Jordan DeLong fracture@allusion.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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