Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 22:10:48 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked Message-ID: <3FC02538.7040903@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20031122.195519.127506801.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20031123112720.J3301@gamplex.bde.org> <20031122.184733.32325352.imp@bsdimp.com> <20031123131536.M3946@gamplex.bde.org> <20031122.195519.127506801.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: > : I agree. termcap.small is amazingly uncurrent. However, perhaps some > : merging and reducing is in order. Why is a full cons25 or vt2xx needed? > : vi only needs a few capabilities. I think we mostly use copies of large > : termcap entries because copying the whole things is easier. > > You have a good point. My termcap was done so that we could run a > number of applications... > > Grepping seems unsatisfying to find out which keys are used. Do you > have a list? > > Warner Is the extra maintenance worth it to save a few hundred bytes? It might even make sense to dynamically generate termcap.tiny at build time by pulling out the entries in /etc/termcap for a selected list of terminal types. Then, no extra maintenance would be needed. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com
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