> From external structure terminfo would appear to be superior to
> termcap [...]

In many respects it is.  But termcap has terminfo beat all hollow in
one major, in my opinion critical, area - at least as far as I've been
able to determine: you can put a terminal type in $TERM and a termcap
entry for it in $TERMCAP, and termcap works, without needing anything
anywhere in the filesystem.  AFAICT nothing of the sort is true for
terminfo, and until it is, I for one will resist letting go of termcap.

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