On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> 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...

Solaris and IRIX64 have the same binary terminfo format as ncurses.
Setting $TERMINFO (or $TERMINO_DIRS) makes an ncurses application
live in the vendor's terminfo database.

AIX and HPUX do not - however ncurses can be compiled to match those
formats (the same applies to Tru64).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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