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Date:      Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:09:53 -0500
From:      Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
To:        Frank Leonhardt <freebsd-doc@fjl.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cursing the tput utility - the penguin strikes again
Message-ID:  <20230223200953.GA2956@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net>
In-Reply-To: <974a81c2-a92d-7f94-5f96-869bddfe21f3@fjl.co.uk>
References:  <974a81c2-a92d-7f94-5f96-869bddfe21f3@fjl.co.uk>

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On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 04:45:21PM +0000, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> I'm looking at another documentation snafu here.
=2E..
> Well use the tcap utility on non-BSD platforms and it suddenly doesn't wo=
rk.
> It turns out that the penguinistas thought using the "Cap Name" instead of
> the "TCap Code" was a good idea. Some of the codes are the same, some are
> not. In fact most are not.

You've got that backwards.  Here's a pointer to the manual page:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tput.1.html#h2-HISTORY

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net

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