From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 24 05:11:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA12173 for current-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 05:11:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nhj.nlc.net.au (rjm@nhj.nlc.net.au [203.24.133.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA12168 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 05:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rjm@localhost) by nhj.nlc.net.au (8.7.1/8.7.1) id WAA03081; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:10:33 +1000 Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:10:33 +1000 (EST) From: Rick Marshall To: Kaz Kylheku cc: Terry Lambert , "Eric S. Raymond" , ache@astral.msk.su, scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk email rjm@nlc.net.au WWW http://www.nlc.net.au/~rjm/ On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Kaz Kylheku wrote: > > Also let's not foget the TERMCAP environment variable! Any curses program that > doesn't recognize this variable is broken. Filling the environment is a great way to slow down program loads... > Today's UNIX systems could crunch through an 8 megabyte /etc/termcap each time > you run a curses program and still start up the program faster than Microsoft > Word. As long as your'e the only user > > If you could show me that the terminfo format had not changed since > > day one, well, then you'd have an argument. > > Haha. Touche. who cares? tic files are what we distribute and compile as required. Now we have ncurses all the earlier porting problems are rapidly dispapearing too. >