From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 9 22:30:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA26974 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:30:37 -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 WAA26964 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:30:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA00396; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:27:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604100527.WAA00396@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses To: esr@locke.ccil.org (Eric S. Raymond) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 22:27:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, scrappy@ki.net, ache@astral.msk.su, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com In-Reply-To: <199604100354.XAA17452@locke.ccil.org> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Apr 9, 96 11:54:55 pm 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 > > 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.