Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 08:50:19 +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 Cc: esr@locke.ccil.org, current@freebsd.org, ncurses-list@netcom.com Subject: Re: terminfo-less ncurses Message-ID: <199604080450.IAA00901@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.92.960408001856.20190D-100000@freebsd.ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at "Apr 8, 96 00:32:48 am"
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> On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, [KOI8-R] Андрей Чернов wrote: > > > > Note: This is being CC'd into current@freebsd.org... > > > > > > On Sun, 7 Apr 1996, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > > > > > > Odd question, but, if I wish to totally disable terminfo and > > > > > use termcap-only for ncurses, how would I go about doing that? I've > > > > > looked through configure for any options, and found none, but I'm > > > > > assuming that there is a way of doing this? > > > > > > > > There's no way to do this, nor am I interested in creating one. I'm trying > > > > to kill off termcap, not give it new life. > > > > > > > > Why on earth do you want this? > > > > Terminfo abuses filesystem with its database, Berkeley *.db termcap database > > give much faster results for searches. Terminfo is not extendable. > > Modern termcap have all terminfo cababilities. > > What do you mean by "extendable"? My understanding of terminfo > is that its mainly a "compiled" termcap entry, spread over a directory > tree structure vs one flat file...other then that, they have the same > features. You can't add new capability to terminfo without touching its internal structure. > > > try to install a personalized .terminfo directory compiled from the > > > /etc/termcap entry? > > > > Total terminfo disabulity isn't possible with current ncurses, > > so additional patch needed. If it will be configure option, > > it will be even better. > > > > According to one of the developers, they took out the capability > to use a pure termcap system, and quite frankly, I'm a little confused > as to what is so special about termcap. Such thing never exists in 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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