>From: hm@hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
>Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 09:09:21 +0200 (METDST)

>A termcap-to-terminfo converter is available, a terminfo-to-termcap
>converter not that i know of. But why should they be part of the lib ?

So that you can link your termcap-based code to a terminfo-based
library.  That is how the ncurses library's tget*() emulation works;
you give it the name of a termcap capability, and it translates and
returns the equivalent terminfo capability.
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