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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc: arch@freebsd.org, jasone@canonware.com
Subject: Re: termcap versus terminfo 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:44:39 PST."
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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:56:44 +0200
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 01:44:39 PST, "Ted Mittelstaedt" wrote:

> The current FreeBSD scheme with the compiled termcap.db
> has terrible documentation.  In fact the only mention of the
> need to use cap_mkdb to build termcap.db is in the cap_mkdb
> man page, and it's not even a mention, it's just a link in
> SEE ALSO.  It's not mentioned in the man page for termcap.

Are there any objections to rebuilding termcap.db once a day from the
periodic scripts?

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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