quan@sol.surv.utas.oz (Stephen Quan) (09/18/90)
I was wondering if anyone can tell me short answer to the following, I can only think of horrible solutions. Scenario: Accessing termcap database using termcap routines, not using curses because the high-level interface doesn't quite suit my requirements. Problem: Getting a field from the database. I figured out how to get the entire environment listing for, say for eg, icl : wb|icl|icl|icl-kds7362: :co#80:li#24:cl=^Z:nd=^L:ho=^^:cm=\E=%+ %+ : :kb=^H:kd=^V:kh=^^:kl=^H:kr=^L:ku=^K: :cr=^M:do=^J:nl=^J:vb=:le=^H:up=^K: :sf=^J:sr=\E= \Ej: :bs: :so=\E(:se=\E): :dc=\EW:dl=\ER:ce=\ET:cd=\EY: :ic=\EQ: (this is a Home-Brew ICL termcap, ICL users try it out! Not 100%) The problem how do I look up and translate a particular field? At the moment I have a vigorous string routine which searches for example ':sr' and then reads in its value and translates \E and similar control code combinations. I was wondering is I have missed something in the termcap manual, ie is there something similar to getenv(). ie I want : char *termgetenv(termenv,field) char *termenv; /* termcap environment entry */ char *field; /* field interested */ /* function returns a translated string for the field. */ /* interested or NULL if the field is not found. */ Stephen Quan (quan@sol.surv.utas.edu.au - I know it says utas.oz above!), Programmer, University of Tasmania, Aussie.