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Date:      Sat, 6 Apr 1996 11:29:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Can we upgrade ncurses?
Message-ID:  <199604060929.LAA07603@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.92.960405220855.1169E-100000@freebsd.ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Apr 5, 96 10:11:41 pm

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As Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> 	Just curious (I'll work on it as termcap-only), but what exactly
> is the difference between termcap and terminfo, and pros/cons of each?

Terminfo abuses the file system as a database.

It introduces new capabilities (e.g. function keys > 9), but that's
not to say you couldn't implement them in tercap either.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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