Re: termcap(5)

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 09:23:52 -0600 (CST), Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Typo on month.

Fixed, thanks.

> Does vi, rogue and curses currently use termcap? (first sentence is
> misleading?)

Technically yes they do.
Our libterminfo implementation supports termcap(3) and the termcap 
abilities it supports is described in terminfo(5).

> Implies there is a termcap file. (Is there?)

No. Where is this implied?
rtadvd.conf(5) would imply that it should exist also, which it does not 
by default.
How would you suggest resolving this?

> Also confusing is login.conf(5) refers to getcap(3) (which is
> curses_termcap.3) which refers to termcap.5.  It says all 
> capabilities
> are two letter codes but login.conf uses full words for capability
> names.

termcap codes are two letter. As this is just for the termcap format 
and not the codes I've removed that line.

> I'd get rid of the long example and references to that example. And 
> just
> have simple examples for the few features.

Done.

New version attached.

Thanks

Roy

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