From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 3 12:51:59 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 542) id D5AB637C24C; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:51:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:51:51 -0700 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , Josef Karthauser , cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ls extern.h ls.1 ls.c ls.h print.c Message-ID: <20000603125151.A1376@freebsd.org> References: <200006021453.HAA57857@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000603040126.A12162@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from asami@freebsd.org on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 12:33:22PM -0700 Organization: Biomechanoid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 12:33:22PM -0700, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote: > * From: "Andrey A. Chernov" > > * I agree. If anybody wants colors he MUST use termcap database or curses and > * NOT some hardcoded values. This extension should be backed out not because it > * is a feature but because of bad implementation of this feature. > > I'm not sure how we can use termcap or curses without mounting /usr. 1) Without mounting /usr ANSI fallback can be used, termcap/curses returns error code indicating that. 2) Without mounting /usr TERMCAP env variable can store terminal description. > I'd like to talk with people who don't own an ANSI terminal *and* who > want to have this functionality. Why we have termcap database then? Just hardcoding ANSI in all programs makes most of users happy. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message