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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:15:45 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Jordan DeLong <fracture@allusion.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: terminfo on freebsd
Message-ID:  <20020110161544.GD94285@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020109195755.A15270@allusion.net>
References:  <20020109195755.A15270@allusion.net>

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In the last episode (Jan 09), Jordan DeLong said:
> are there any plans for converting freebsd's ncurses install to use
> terminfo instead of termcap?  is there some reason for sticking to
> termcap instead of terminfo?  (disk space, etc?) and is there an easy
> method (i.e. ports or simple make install from somewhere in /usr/src)
> to convert a freebsd system to use terminfo?

Mainly because there is no need to move to terminfo.  Why have your
terminal entries in 2000 tiny files in an unreadable binary format
that's different for each OS, when you can have them all in a single
text file that all OSes can read?

Is there some reason to convert to terminfo?

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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