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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:41:11 -0700
From:      Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: parsing terminfo entries
Message-ID:  <87d3xsyd08.fsf@cjlinux.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <19407.1754.183540.932540@jerusalem.litteratus.org> (Robert Huff's message of "Wed\, 21 Apr 2010 10\:08\:26 -0400")
References:  <19407.1754.183540.932540@jerusalem.litteratus.org>

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Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> writes:

> 	Other than curses, is there a library that will let me parse a
> terminfo string?  I.e. ask for the value of a particular setting?

I don't know of any way to parse it, but have you looked at tput(1)?
It will give the value of termcap or terminfo attributes for any
terminal type that you specify.
-- 
Carl Johnson		carlj@peak.org




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