[comp.os.minix] V1.4a - termcap

holm@ubc-bdcvax.UUCP (Terrence W. Holm) (01/25/89)

The termcap(3) posted as part of V1.4a does not contain
any of the big fixes already included in the V1.3 library.

The problems are:
	- ^x escapes generate the wrong value (ie. ^H -> ^G)
	- If TERM != name and TERMCAP is defined, then
	   /etc/termcap should be searched.
	- tgoto() does not have col/line in the correct order
	  for both types of output (should have 'r' option)
	- If a long definition precedes a short one, the
	  program gets the short one wrong.
	- Spaces must be watched more closely now.

Will the author (or the poster) please go back to the working
V1.3 copy, and THEN apply any subsequent patches - including,
of course, the good part of the new termcap(3), which checks
all names in a definition.

		Terrence W. Holm
		  holm@bdc.ubc.ca

n62@nikhefh.hep.nl (Klamer Schutte) (02/03/89)

In article <406@ubc-bdcvax.UUCP> holm@ubc-bdcvax.UUCP (Terrence W. Holm) writes:
>The termcap(3) posted as part of V1.4a does not contain
>any of the big fixes already included in the V1.3 library.

( I already posted a similar message from an other site; i don't think that one
  made it. When somebody receive's a double message: i am sorry )

The termcap(3) posted as in part V1.4 is derived from the minix-st source;
it is possible this does not contain fixes of V1.3 . When somebody has the
source of the termcap V1.3 for me i will make the best of two worlds.

Klamer

PS. In my posting of the routines i explicitly mentioned it was minix-st;
When ast wants to promote them to V1.4 complain to him, not to a ( crypticly
called ) poster ( which i take for myself). But, no hard feelings.
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