From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 4 13:20:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04285 for current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 13:20:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA04265 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 13:20:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA02427 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 23:20:23 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05032; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 22:10:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970404221051.PZ02960@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 22:10:51 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Current) Subject: Re: modify termcap to support both A[FB] and S[fb]... References: <19970404004714.27849@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from ??????????????? on Apr 4, 1997 21:53:43 +0400 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrey wrote: > > it seems that screen wants to use A[FB] only... and that cons/xterm > > want to use S[fb]... > > I object, we don't need 1000+1 abbreviations for the same capatibility, > fix screen instead. I object against your objection. :-) ncurses (libdialog?) seems to have made a simlar arbitrary decision about using Sf/Sb. None if them is ``more correct'' than the other one, and i remember a discussion in the XFree86 team that AB/AF are supposedly from SysV land. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)