Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:27:47 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: esr@locke.ccil.org (Eric S. Raymond) Cc: terry@lambert.org, scrappy@ki.net, ache@astral.msk.su, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses Message-ID: <199604100527.WAA00396@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604100354.XAA17452@locke.ccil.org> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Apr 9, 96 11:54:55 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? I'm sure that Bill Joy was defending terminfo. It's possible he was engaging in some chain-yanking. I was only a spectator. 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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