by Doug Eva » Wed, 29 Apr 1992 11:00:27
If so, are there any plans to go to Terminfo? And if not,
does anyone know where I can pick up Terminfo?
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by Bennett E. To » Thu, 30 Apr 1992 01:28:33
If you want the more expressive syntax, and a different programming
interface, fine, but let's not perpetuate the stupidity of using raw
dumped-out binary images of a program's internal data structures.
-Bennett (curmudgeon)
by David J. MacKenz » Fri, 01 May 1992 00:51:52
You can ftp a public domain implementation of terminfo (which alsoQuote:> I gather from various messages that Linux uses Termcap. Correct?
> If so, are there any plans to go to Terminfo? And if not,
> does anyone know where I can pick up Terminfo?
I'm sorry, it was more of a general question. I have compiled and installed
versions of ncurses before without trouble - I was mostly interested in
how a program determined to use terminfo over termcap - I've been looking
around, and I assume it's just a series of compiler defines, but as I can
get these questions answered too: (smile)
Currently, I have ncurses 1.9.7a instaled in /usr/lib with synlinks so that
curses points to ncurses. The included terminfo database is installed in
/usr/lib/terminfo - TERM is vanilla xterm, and TERMCAP is the xterm entry
straight out of the DB, I believe (I haven't messed with it).
As far as my ncurses 1.9.8a problem, I (as a non-root user) just
uncompress and run ./configure, which creates the necessary makefile.
I didn't do anything to the environment variables to either change my
settings to reflect the new library, though.
I'm still playing with ncurses (I'm not "stuck", just learning), but
if you could answer my question above in relation to how termcap/terminfo
works, I'd appreciate it greatly, as my searching today has left me
empty of answers.
Thanks
Conor
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