Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 01:26:38 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= <ache@astral.msk.su> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: termcap/curses vs ncurses Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.92.960408011517.20504A-100000@freebsd.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199604080509.JAA01029@astral.msk.su>
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On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, [KOI8-R] =E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA =FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7 wrote: > > =09curses 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 > > mytinfo is terminfo emulator. > =09what do you mean by an 'emulator'? does ncurses replace it, or does it augment ncurses? is there currently any reason to keep it in the library try? > proper way: > Pass#1: bring up 1.9.9 ncurses =09Okay, but this has to be brought up with termcap only support, which to me, means that we are taking a perfectly good library and hacking to do something that it wasn't meant to do (namely, use termcap) > Pass#2: replace mytinfo with fake dummy library =09What code requires mytinfo that mytinfo can't just be removed from the source tree? > Pass#3: duplicate ncurses to curses (symlinks) > =09Meaning that we can get rid of libcurses altogether. =09But, again, the problem comes down to termcap vs terminfo :) =09Is *everyone* set against terminfo? If so, I'll work on 1.9.9 so that it parses only termcap and doesn't create a .terminfo directory, just sounds crippling to me :( =09I'll try to have it up and working by the end of this week, had most of it done today, and then sup'd in a new -current forgetting to put a refuse file in for libncurses *sigh* won't make *that* mistake again. 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
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