Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 17:58:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ncurses update? Message-ID: <199811060158.RAA01574@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:57:13 %2B0800." <199811060157.JAA08921@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Coming out of a discussion on the -alpha list, I was contacted about > > this. We're still at 1.8.6. What's the justification for not > > upgrading? > > I've got a bmaked version running on one of my systems and it has been in > that state for quite some time. > > I find very few problems with it as a result.. One thing I was very much > tempted to do was to grab the OpenBSD termcap reader that generates the > terminfo style tables that ncurses can use directly. The beauty of that > is that the result is both libtermcap and libncurses compatable. The > other nice thing it does (I think) is support a terminfo.db file rather > than thousands of tiny binary files. So, you can have a text file (just > like termcap) and do a cap_mkdb on it for fast lookups. > > The ncurses version of the termcap reader is pretty rotten (IMHO). It > had some 'getcap' compatability code added for 4.4BSD compatability, but > then they built in a castrated version of getcap that didn't support .db > files etc. Ok. Can we assume this is in your queue, or should we find an eager go-getter to look after it? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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