>>>>> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 22:44:45 +0200, Joerg Klemenz <joerg@gmx.net> said:

>> 1) terminfo is not extensible the way termcap is. with termcap, you can
>> add arbitrary capabilities. you cannot do this with terminfo.

> What capabilities you want to add that won't work with terminfo??

*Every capability*.

Please look at binary format of terminfo carefully.

Both termcap and source format of terminfo use "key=value" format,
so different vendors can add new capability independently, if their
key names don't conflict.

But binary format of terminfo doesn't have key field.
So, everytime one vendor add a new capability, that capability
conflicts with capabilities of all other vendors with that offset.
Such conflicts actually happened on commercial Unix vendors... ;-<
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