From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 17 2: 7:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (whale.sunbay.crimea.ua [212.110.138.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0290037B405 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 02:07:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ru@localhost) by whale.sunbay.crimea.ua (8.11.6/8.11.2) id g0HA3Jv47634; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:03:19 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:03:19 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jasone@canonware.com Subject: Re: termcap versus terminfo Message-ID: <20020117120319.L27310@sunbay.com> References: <001501c19f3b$94c35280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001501c19f3b$94c35280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:44:39AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > For starters I'm not particularly a terminfo supporter, my main > concern is seeing something that's easy to use and works. But > I feel the current FreeBSD scheme doesen't work - at least not > from an administration standpoint. > > The current FreeBSD scheme with the compiled termcap.db > has terrible documentation. In fact the only mention of the > need to use cap_mkdb to build termcap.db is in the cap_mkdb > man page, and it's not even a mention, it's just a link in > SEE ALSO. It's not mentioned in the man page for termcap. > Not true. It's referenced from the FILES section of termcap(5). > I don't see as how any admin is going to figure out how to add a terminal > description other than trial and error so what "user friendliness" gained by > holding to the human-readable /etc/termcap format is lost in the current > scheme and really shouldn't be an issue to use in deciding between > termcap and terminfo. > What's wrong with reading termcap(5)? :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message