From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 20 11:42: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B1215B91 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:42:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA20116; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:40:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA03539; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:28:00 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA04257; Mon, 20 Sep 99 11:40:39 PDT Message-Id: <37E67FA7.3ACA0062@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:40:39 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping termcap up to date References: <199909201558.AAA07459@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > I just wonder why don't we just import termcap database from > the master site: http://www.tuxedo.org/terminfo, rather than > maintaining our own copy? > > In the past, it has been pointed out that some of the termcap entries > needs updating. Some entries have been revised. But, it appears that > some others haven't, and we are now getting out of sync with the > latest version of the terminal database. > > The simplest and the easiest thing to do is to just import > the master copy from the above site... If we import it, we don't have much of an opportunity to QA it. Not that we do a lot of that anyhow. ;^) Given the copyright state, I certainly find no objections: # This file deliberately has no copyright. It belongs to no one and everyone. # If you claim you own it, you will merely succeed in looking like a fool. # Use it as you like. Use it at your own risk. Copy and redistribute freely. # There are no guarantees anywhere. Svaha! ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message