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Date:      Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:21:59 -0500
From:      "Steve Friedrich" <SteveFriedrich@Hot-Shot.com>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "John C. Place" <placej@ctcdist.com>
Subject:   Re: QNX terminal emulation
Message-ID:  <199810282323.SAA10944@laker.net>

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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:35:33 -0500, John C. Place wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 04:34:35PM -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote:
>> I suspect that you might not find someone with a ready-made solution. 
>> If that's the case, you might want to get a copy of "termcap &
>> terminfo" from O'Reilly.  This book should give you enough knowledge to
>> *port* the termcap entry you have.  I'd use the man page and verify
>> each piece of the termcap.
>> 
>Thanks for the reply
>
>I was hoping I could use the term soutce file that come with qnx or Linux.... 
>I dont get it why would you need to "port" it. I thought the whole thing 
>behind termcap was to give it a common "language" ??

Yea, but the caveat is:
In theory, theory is the same as practice.  But in practice, it's not! 
(or words to that effect)
It may work as is, but I wouldn't bet MONEY on it ;o)
Have you ever noticed how different C or Fortran compilers are on
different platforms, even when they claim to be *ansi* standard??
Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes.



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