From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 8 15:30:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA07433 for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:30:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA07415 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:30:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA03175; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:23:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604082223.PAA03175@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses To: scrappy@ki.net Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:23:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: ache@astral.msk.su, esr@locke.ccil.org, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Apr 8, 96 00:32:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > give much faster results for searches. Terminfo is not extendable. > > Modern termcap have all terminfo cababilities. > > What do you mean by "extendable"? My understanding of terminfo > is that its mainly a "compiled" termcap entry, spread over a directory > tree structure vs one flat file...other then that, they have the same > features. If you add attribute "foo", since the on disk data is a binary data file contatining a structure, all on-disk data files must be changes and all statically linked programs must be relinked to get the new sizof(struct) and element layout. I rememebr a conversation where a former boss was arguing heatedly about terminfo being a "piece of shit", and basically lambasting it up and down in front of an audience of 6 or 8 people. One of them came forward and said "Excuse me. I'm Bill Joy, and I wrote terminfo...". 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.