Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2005 11:22:10 +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: <20050402082210.GC840@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <ef60af090504011346b3104a5@mail.gmail.com> References: <ef60af0905033115291da6d5d7@mail.gmail.com> <20050401012107.GA57109@gothmog.gr> <ef60af0905033117317931e809@mail.gmail.com> <20050401014254.GA60499@gothmog.gr> <ef60af0905033117463eadbfa9@mail.gmail.com> <20050401095719.GA27661@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> <ef60af090504011346b3104a5@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2005-04-01 23:46, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: >On Apr 1, 2005 11:57 AM, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> wrote: >> On 2005-04-01 03:46, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens@gmail.com> wrote: >> > so termcap is like a x server but then for terminals ? >> >> Not really. The termcap(5) manpage describes this in (hopefully) >> adequate detail: >> >> % 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. > > isnt that the same as xserver does for xclients telling the clients > what they can and cant do ? In some ways yes, in other ways no. The X servers do a better job of abstracting away some hardware features than termcap.
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