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Date:      Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:08:37 +0400 (MSD)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libncurses 1.9.9e ready to commit
Message-ID:  <199604092208.CAA00443@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.92.960409172550.9514t-100000@freebsd.ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at "Apr 9, 96 05:27:10 pm"

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> On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, [KOI8-R] Андрей Чернов wrote:
> 
> > > 	What I'm trying to ensure is that each person installing FreeBSD
> > > in general, and libncurses in specific, HAS that choice...has the choice to
> > > use terminfo vs termcap without having to reinstall a library to do so.
> >
> > Well, I agree.
> >
> 	So, I can commit libncurses 1.9.9e to replace 1.8.6 *with* the
> choice of using termcap (default) or terminfo (admin manually installs
> the terminfo files)?  No patches to disable terminfo functionality?

Yes. Please check additionly that new ncurses can understand
BSD termcap.db format (cgetent and similar functions).
I remember Bostic posts some patches for it
long time ago, but not shure they become part of ncurses.

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me,  /Thinking me dead.
RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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