Subject: Re: Termcap/Termlib
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 07/03/1995 00:09:09
Thanks for pointing out the blindingly obvious to me (The so
obvious that I hadn't seen it). I was so tied up in the files
being different that it never occured to me the interface
would be the same. I shall attempt to invest in a brain before
posting again :).
Thanks again!
David
D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk (MIME) +44 171 477 8186 {post,host}master (abs)
Network Analyst, UCS, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB.
On Sun, 2 Jul 1995, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950702193409.14816D-100000@euston> D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk (David Brownlee) writes:
> > I'm trying to get a program to compile under both solaris & netbsd,
> > and I only want to support one of termcap/termlib. (I cant use solaris
> > termcap because it dictates that I must link with -lucb (utterly
> > completely broken) which is causing me more problms than enough...
> >
> > Is netbsd liable to get a termlib interface at any point? or does
> > anyone know of a package I can use to get a termcap interface from
> > a termlib library or vica versa?
> >
> > TIA
> > David
> >
>
> I don't understand what you mean by `a termlib interface'. Termcap and termlib
> are supposed to provide the same interface [at the minimum termcap level at
> least] which contains:
>
> int tgetent __P((char *, char *));
> char *tgetstr __P((char *, char **));
> int tgetflag __P((char *));
> int tgetnum __P((char *));
> char *tgoto __P((char *, int, int));
> char *tputs __P((char *, int, void (*)(int)));
>
> christos
>