From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 8 15:56:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA09727 for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA09721 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id SAA23183; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:56:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id SAA06534; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:57:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:57:46 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Terry Lambert cc: ache@astral.msk.su, esr@locke.ccil.org, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses In-Reply-To: <199604082223.PAA03175@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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. > Now, *this* argument makes sense. I take it that in a termcap file, if you add attribute "foo" to one entry, you don't have to do so to all the entries? Or is it just the fact that its in one file instead of many? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc