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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 1997 21:36:57 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        "Klaus-J. Wolf" <Yanestra@t-online.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: termcap
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970920211759.25287A-100000@lsd.relcom.eu.net>
In-Reply-To: <m0xCS54-0007s9C@fwd01.btx.dtag.de>

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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Klaus-J. Wolf wrote:

> > termcap database now officially maintained by ncurses people, namely Eric
> > S. Raymond, and FreeBSD tries to adopt those entries when possible. 
> 
> Officially?  You make me laugh.  Official to whom?  It is the wrong date to make 

Officially for BSD camp. Previously termcap database was maintained in
Berkeley. They pass termcap maintaining right to Eric in 1995. See
http://www.ccil.org/~esr/terminfo.html

> > Old curses/termcap project not maintained anymore in favor of ncurses
> > which is default curses for BSD now, it is official position of old
> > curses/termcap maintainer.
> 
> Funny thing.  NCurses relies on terminfo, not on termcap.  Someone seems to have 
> crippled NCurses a little to make it termcap-conforming.

ncurses relies on termcap too. It can work in termcap-only system.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/




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