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On Apr 1, 2005 11:57 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2005-04-01 03:46, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:42:55 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
> ><keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> >>On 2005-04-01 03:31, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> what is a termcap ?
> >>
> >> There's a manpage for this one.
> >
> >
> > so termcap is like a x server but then for terminals ?
> 
> Not really.  The termcap(5) manpage describes this in (hopefully)
> adequate detail:
> 
> % TERMCAP(5)            FreeBSD File Formats Manual           TERMCAP(5)
> %
> % NAME
> %      termcap -- terminal capability data base
> %
> % SYNOPSIS
> %      termcap
> %
> % DESCRIPTION
> %      The termcap file is a data base describing terminals, used, for
> %      example, by vi(1) and ncurses(3).  Terminals are described in
> %      termcap by giving a set of capabilities that they have and by
> %      describing how operations are performed.  Padding requirements
> %      and initialization sequences are included in termcap.
> %      [...]
> 

isnt that the same as xserver does for xclients telling the clients
what they can and cant do ?