From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 7 21:37:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA00269 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA00263 for ; Sun, 7 Apr 1996 21:37:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebsd.ki.net (root@freebsd.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by ki.net (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id AAA19505 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 00:37:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by freebsd.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id AAA20454 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 00:38:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: freebsd.ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 00:38:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" Reply-To: "Marc G. Fournier" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: termcap/curses vs ncurses Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... Other then "because nobody has done it yet", why do we have termcap & curses & ncurses & mytinfo? ncurses alone replaces them all, except for the fact that everyone seems to be dead-set against terminfo vs termcap. curses is dated '94, termcap is dated '93, and I haven't figured out what mytinfo is used for, but its dated '92, while ncurses is being actively developed. it just looks like a lot of redundant libraries to do the same thing, with the result of having a bloated set of libraries. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc