david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo) (02/05/86)
In article <6012@elsie.UUCP> ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) writes: >> The 4.1BSD TERMCAP(5) documentation is very obsolete. >> A much improved edition should be distributed with 4.3BSD. > >I trust that no one will be misled by Doug Gwyn's contribution. The 4.1BSD >termcap(5) documentation is utterly up-to-date for those of us running 4.1BSD >(and for folks interested in writing programs that will port to 4.1BSD systems); >attempts to use 4.3BSD documentation on 4.1BSD systems would be catastrophic. Unfortunately, the 4.1bsd termcap man page *is* obsolete with respect to the 4.1bsd code. When I was running 4.1bsd, I would have been lost without the updated documentation provided by Mark Horton (thanks again). -- David DiGiacomo {decvax, ihnp4, ucbvax}!sun!david david@sun.arpa Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7495