Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:19:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: cat@ghost.uunet.ca (Cat Okita) Cc: esr@locke.ccil.org, terry@lambert.org, ache@astral.msk.su, scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses Message-ID: <199604091719.KAA05239@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960409083651.25012a-100000@ghost.uunet.ca> from "Cat Okita" at Apr 9, 96 08:39:57 am
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> ...and on another level, the terminfo structure is a *Bloody Nuisance* > when you're stuck trying to boot a machine with a terminal, and there > isn't an entry for it. > > Checking the 'entry' is impossible under terminfo - it's compiled, so you > can't even head for the closest match (and if you've ever been stuck trying > to find a definition for useful things like escape characters and function > keys...) - with the termcap file, not only do you know where to look, you > can figure out what the closest match is *without* having to know the last > 10 years worth of terminals inside out and backwards... If I am using a termcap machine, I usually setenv TERMCAP to a minimal one for the terminal. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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