SLG6M%USU.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (07/28/86)
Quoted from INFO-UNIX digest V2#174: > +--------------- > | Alas, it seems AT&T has broken termcap and instead of fixing it, they > | decided not to support it. > +--------------- > > Huh??? I hate to tell you, but what you're so blithely calling termcap is in > reality terminfo. Read TERM(4) in the UNIX Programmer's Reference Guide. The > current version of terminfo supports access of terminfo capabilities by the > old termcap names via compatibility calls to tget*; however, the two work in > totally different ways. (Tgetstr() doesn't need a buffer; terminfo uses an > internal buffer instead. Which is a step forward in my opinion.) HP-UX V5.05 is supposed to be Sys V compatable. All of my comments are based on my experience with it. Read TERMCAP(4) in the (yes!) System V Programmer's manual. The routines in question are called "emulation" routines. If routine B is supposed emulate routine A, and B doesn't always behave the same as A for the same usage, it's not emulating routine A, folks. By the way, termcap referes to BOTH a terminal capability database (/etc/termcap) and to the low-level routines that interface with it. Terminfo refers to another terminal database (/usr/lib/terminfo and subdirectories thereof). > +--------------- > | BTW, the machine I have checked this on is an AT&T PC6300PLUS. It > | exibited the same problems you described. It now works by doing it > | the way I described above. > +--------------- > > Read TERM(4) and rewrite using terminfo. You won't be sorry; terminfo is much > cleaner than termcap. You *can't* "rewrite using terminfo." Because terminfo is just a DATABASE. The routines in question are called curses (which, by the way, also exist on non-AT&T systems like BSD). --David Barts "Information breeds Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA distrust, distrust Bitnet: SLG6M@USU.BITNET breeds thinking, and ARPAnet: slg6m%usu.bitnet@wiscvm.arpa THINKING BREEDS AT&T: 801-753-2952 ANARCHY!" USPS: 654 1/2 E 800 N / Logan, UT 84321 - Tangerine Radio QSL