From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 9 08:15:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA17688 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 08:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from watson.grauel.com (watson.grauel.com [199.233.104.36]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17677 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 08:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparcmill.grauel.com (sparcmill.grauel.com [199.233.104.34]) by watson.grauel.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24778 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:27:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by sparcmill.grauel.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA03884; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:15:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 10:15:14 -0500 Message-Id: <199604091515.KAA03884@sparcmill.grauel.com> From: Richard J Kuhns To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libncurses 1.9.9e ready to commit In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marc G. Fournier writes: > > Hi... > > Well, I have it ready to plug in, including making sure the > man pages and links are created properly. It compiles and installs > on my machine, and its running on my machine currently. > > I have not removed any of the terminfo functionality, so that > anyone that *wants* to use terminfo can just install the terminfo > database and it will work. Without the terminfo database installed, it > will revert to using termcap instead. > (Boy, take a couple of days off, and it's amazing what you miss ;-).) I need (well, I really really want) terminfo support, so I hope you can and do commit it with terminfo available. I *use*, on mulitple platforms, some of the standard capabilities terminfo supports for printers. Currently, part of my "standard configuration" for a new FreeBSD system is to rebuild libmytinfo with terminfo support; I can then use the same code under SVR4, Solaris, and FreeBSD. I see no problem with having 2 potential sources of terminal/printer info; if you want to make sure you're using the termcap version (for example), just mv the terminfo file out of the way (or set TERMINFO to /tmp). I'm not arguing the relative technical merits of terminfo and termcap; I just don't want to have to worry about YA arbitrary difference between different *ixes. Speaking as someone who develops applications that need to run under multiple *ixes... -- Rich Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 100 Sawmill Road Lafayette, IN 47903 (317)477-6000 x319