Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 12:57:19 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i did it again Message-ID: <20050401095719.GA27661@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> In-Reply-To: <ef60af0905033117463eadbfa9@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af0905033115291da6d5d7@mail.gmail.com> <20050401012107.GA57109@gothmog.gr> <ef60af0905033117317931e809@mail.gmail.com> <20050401014254.GA60499@gothmog.gr> <ef60af0905033117463eadbfa9@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2005-04-01 03:46, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:42:55 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas ><keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >>On 2005-04-01 03:31, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: >>> what is a termcap ? >> >> There's a manpage for this one. > > > so termcap is like a x server but then for terminals ? Not really. The termcap(5) manpage describes this in (hopefully) adequate detail: % TERMCAP(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual TERMCAP(5) % % NAME % termcap -- terminal capability data base % % SYNOPSIS % termcap % % DESCRIPTION % The termcap file is a data base describing terminals, used, for % example, by vi(1) and ncurses(3). Terminals are described in % termcap by giving a set of capabilities that they have and by % describing how operations are performed. Padding requirements % and initialization sequences are included in termcap. % [...]
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