Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:30:03 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/23710: [PATCH] there is no termcap(3) manpage per se Message-ID: <200012211730.eBLHU3n82844@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/23710; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: dickey@Radix.Net Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/23710: [PATCH] there is no termcap(3) manpage per se Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:24:54 +0200 [CC:ing this to freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, so it enters the audit trail; I guess others might raise this question too.] On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 12:04:55PM -0500, dickey@Radix.Net wrote: > termcap(3) belongs to another package (it's not part of ncurses) I know; however, in FreeBSD there doesn't seem to be a standalone termcap/libtermcap implementation; /usr/lib/libtermcap.* are just symlinks to /usr/lib/libncurses.*, and there is an addon termcap.c in the src/lib/libncurses/ directory - which is where ncurses are *built*, as opposed to the src/contrib/ncurses/ directory, where the ncurses source is imported and maintained. The tgetent, tgetflat, tgetnum and tgetstr section 3 manpages already are linked to the curs_termcap(3) manpage. My proposed patch simply documents this fact a bit further :) I'm suggesting a FreeBSD-specific change to an already FreeBSD-specific treatment of termcap/ncurses - I am not suggesting a change to the ncurses package itself. G'luck, Peter -- "yields falsehood, when appended to its quotation." yields falsehood, when appended to its quotation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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