From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 6 01:58:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA19627 for current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:58:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA19605 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 01:58:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA10423 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:58:47 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA17797 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:58:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id LAA07603 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:29:15 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604060929.LAA07603@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Can we upgrade ncurses? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:29:13 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at Apr 5, 96 10:11:41 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Just curious (I'll work on it as termcap-only), but what exactly > is the difference between termcap and terminfo, and pros/cons of each? Terminfo abuses the file system as a database. It introduces new capabilities (e.g. function keys > 9), but that's not to say you couldn't implement them in tercap either. -- 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. ;-)