Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:36:04 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jasone@canonware.com Subject: Re: termcap versus terminfo Message-ID: <20020117133604.A59128@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <002001c19f47$c8aa8f80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <20020117120319.L27310@sunbay.com> <002001c19f47$c8aa8f80$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:12:00AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Ruslan Ermilov [mailto:ru@FreeBSD.ORG] > >Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 2:03 AM > >To: Ted Mittelstaedt > >Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG; jasone@canonware.com > >Subject: Re: termcap versus terminfo > > > > > >Not true. It's referenced from the FILES section of termcap(5). > > > > You mean right above the sentence about termcap being replaced by > terminfo. (on System V, yet) Uh huh. Just gives you a warm fuzzy > about the applicability of the manpage, doesen't it? :-) > You 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. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ It _is_ mentioned here: : TERMCAP(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual TERMCAP(5) : : NAME : termcap - terminal capability data base [...] : FILES : /usr/share/misc/termcap File containing terminal descriptions. : /usr/share/misc/termcap.db Hash database file containing terminal : descriptions (see cap_mkdb(1)). ^^^^^^^^ : : SEE ALSO : cap_mkdb(1), ex(1), more(1), tset(1), ul(1), vi(1), ncurses(3), ^^^^^^^^ : printf(3), termcap(3), term(5) Looking at the wrong section manpage? :-) Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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