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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:58:02 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Tony Kimball <alk@Think.COM>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: termcap/curses vs ncurses
Message-ID:  <199604081458.JAA10195@compound.think.com>

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  From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
  Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 01:26:38 -0400 (EDT)

  =09Is *everyone* set against terminfo?  If so, I'll work on 1.9.9
  so that it parses only termcap and doesn't create a .terminfo directory,
  just sounds crippling to me :(

One man's opinion: terminfo is gross over-engineering cruft, and more
importantly it is a bother for sysadmin.  As long as there is no need
to bring in other software that depends upon it, it seems desirable to
avoid the pollution.





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