On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:18 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>> Well, no...but wsvt25 isn't in /etc/termcap on Solaris either.
>
> I had that (and AIX, HPUX, SGI) in mind, since there are ncurses  
> packages
> available from their respective vendors, and since a number of  
> packages
> have (not always necessary) dependencies on ncurses.
>
> On Solaris it's unlikely that you'd be using /etc/termcap anyway -  
> the only terminal added in the past 10 years was dtterm (and it's  
> not even the correct format ;-)

It does seem to be relatively common for people to install ncurses  
and terminfo rather than using the Sun-supplied termcap, true.   
However, even if you staticly link a binary against ncurses, you  
still end up with a dependency upon the terminfo files, so such  
binaries are not as self-contained as one might wish...

>> But MacOS X has /usr/share/terminfo/77/wsvt25, so perhaps that's  
>> all right.
>
> yes - that's ncurses, too.

Thanks for your work on ncurses, BTW.  (And ESR, and Zeyd Ben-Halim  
too.)

-- 
-Chuck