From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 8:15:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A285D37B419 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:15:47 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0AGFjm23283; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:15:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:15:45 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jordan DeLong Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: terminfo on freebsd Message-ID: <20020110161544.GD94285@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020109195755.A15270@allusion.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020109195755.A15270@allusion.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message