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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2002 03:24:10 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, arch@freebsd.org, brian@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: termcap versus terminfo
Message-ID:  <3C46B45A.27C8AB4D@mindspring.com>
References:  <200201171116.g0HBGCL32118@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>

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Brian Somers wrote:
> I think it might be better to have a job like this that just checks
> the db source times against the db times and complains when the
> sources are newer.
> 
> If people are actually updating the sources without running the
> relevant _mkdb program, then maybe that needs to be addressed (more
> loudly) rather than fixing the problem ?

I was actually thinking that if the db was not newer than
the termcap, it should just have the application complain,
and do the search the old, slow way.

In fact, I'm not sure that it doesn't.  8-).  Someone might
want to look, and while they are there, add it, if it's not
there already...

-- Terry

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