From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 9 10:28:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA26939 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA26929 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA05239; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:19:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604091719.KAA05239@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses To: cat@ghost.uunet.ca (Cat Okita) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:19:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: esr@locke.ccil.org, terry@lambert.org, ache@astral.msk.su, scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com In-Reply-To: from "Cat Okita" at Apr 9, 96 08:39:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ...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.