Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 23:54:55 -0400 (EDT) From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@locke.ccil.org> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: scrappy@ki.net, ache@astral.msk.su, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses Message-ID: <199604100354.XAA17452@locke.ccil.org> In-Reply-To: <199604082223.PAA03175@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 8, 96 03:23:16 pm
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> I rememebr a conversation where a former boss was arguing heatedly > about terminfo being a "piece of shit", and basically lambasting > it up and down in front of an audience of 6 or 8 people. One of > them came forward and said "Excuse me. I'm Bill Joy, and I wrote > terminfo...". This seems unlikely. Terminfo was written at Bell Labs. Bill Joy was the BSD guy who wrote termcap. Are you sure your boss wasn't thinking of termcap? -- >>esr>>help
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