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Re: terminfo vs termcap



On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 12:35:09PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:44:10PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
> > You're ignoring the other advantages of terminfo as already discussed.
> 
> Sorry, I probably overlooked something but right now it's unclear to me
> why "we have a good working non standard implementation" is better in
> terminfo than in termcap world.
> 
> I'm a bit suprised nobody suggested to use a plist based completely new
> format and extended termlib API + termcap compatible environement yet.

...other than the absence of existing applications which use the extended
API, as well as the absence of applications which could easily (no rewrites)
use it?

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Thomas E. Dickey
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