Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 23:02:47 +0100 From: Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> To: Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> Cc: dickey@his.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, bapt@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd 14+ -- tcsh incompatible with terminfo Message-ID: <20231101220247.HGrrB%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <202311010349.3A13nX1M094463@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net> References: <202310312245.39VMjNJB080965@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net> <202310312259.39VMxm6W081150@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net> <ZUGZPWBSt80p3jHa@prl-debianold-64.jexium-island.net> <202311010349.3A13nX1M094463@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>
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Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote in <202311010349.3A13nX1M094463@donotpassgo.dyslexicfish.net>: |Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> wrote: ... |To the FreeBSD release folk, I think it's great that we're moving off \ |termcap, Why? (That is to say: why -- if it is a *real* termcap? If it is only a translation layer to terminfo, i am with you. But otherwise not, i think a real termcap is much, much smaller, while offering anything a (simple) console program needs.) That is not to talk small the efforts of Mr. Dickey. But for example the mailer i maintain *can* directly use BSD termcap if so desired, and it works just nice. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
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