From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 17 17:42:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7922E37B42A; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a038.otenet.gr [212.205.215.38]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0I1gCw18496; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 03:42:13 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0HLUiD41375; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:30:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:30:43 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt , arch@freebsd.org, jasone@canonware.com Subject: Re: termcap versus terminfo Message-ID: <20020117213043.GB41262@hades.hell.gr> References: <001501c19f3b$94c35280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20020117120319.L27310@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020117120319.L27310@sunbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-01-17 12:03:19, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 01:44:39AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > I don't see as how any admin is going to figure out how to add a terminal > > description other than trial and error so what "user friendliness" gained by > > holding to the human-readable /etc/termcap format is lost in the current > > scheme and really shouldn't be an issue to use in deciding between > > termcap and terminfo. > > > What's wrong with reading termcap(5)? :-) Uhm, nothing. And FILES already mentions cap_mkdb(1). This means my earlier message about describing how changes can be made to termcap, is probably meaningless. Ah well :/ The manpage is great, now that I've read all of it. If the need arises and people do indeed ask about making their own terminal entries, I'll go write a FAQ entry about the source of it all in src/share/termcap/termcap.src -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message