Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:50:48 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parsing terminfo entries Message-ID: <426A2EB5-63FF-4FA4-BF7E-48492C4BC47C@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <19407.1754.183540.932540@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <19407.1754.183540.932540@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Hi-- On Apr 21, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > Other than curses, is there a library that will let me parse a > terminfo string? I.e. ask for the value of a particular setting? There is/was a compatibility layer called termcap which has things like tgetent(), tputs(), etc. You should be able to link that /usr/lib/libtermcap.a (or .so) in instead of libcurses, although it might just be a nickname for libcurses nowadays on FreeBSD. Regards, -- -Chuck
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