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Re: terminfo vs termcap



On Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:07:27 +0200, Martin Husemann 
<martin%duskware.de@localhost>
wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 04:30:40AM +0100, Roy Marples wrote:
>> Those are NetBSD extensions.
>> We can always extent terminfo functions in a similar vein.
> 
> Doesn't that kill the whole advantage of the move?

You're ignoring the other advantages of terminfo as already discussed.

But you can achieve similar functionality like so

TERMINAL *oterm = set_curterm(nterm);
// Do some foo
set_curterm(oterm);

Thanks

Roy


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