Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 08:39:57 -0400 From: Cat Okita <cat@ghost.uunet.ca> To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@locke.ccil.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, ache@astral.msk.su, scrappy@ki.net, current@FreeBSD.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960409083651.25012a-100000@ghost.uunet.ca> In-Reply-To: <199604082331.TAA25937@locke.ccil.org>
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On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > But these are details. Show me a new terminal that can't be described > essentially completely by terminfo. Go ahead. Try. They're just not > building weird command sets like they used to -- async-terminal technology > now consists of 99% VT100/ANSI/ECMA-48 clones and 1% fossils. ...and on another level, the terminfo structure is a *Bloody Nuisance* when you're stuck trying to boot a machine with a terminal, and there isn't an entry for it. Checking the 'entry' is impossible under terminfo - it's compiled, so you can't even head for the closest match (and if you've ever been stuck trying to find a definition for useful things like escape characters and function keys...) - with the termcap file, not only do you know where to look, you can figure out what the closest match is *without* having to know the last 10 years worth of terminals inside out and backwards... Cat
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