Re: tn3270, mset and map3270

[Roy Marples <roy%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On 17/01/2010 04:44, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Jan 17,  3:13am, roy%NetBSD.org@localhost (Roy Marples) wrote: -- Subject:
> Re: tn3270, mset and map3270
>
> | On 17/01/2010 01:03, Christos Zoulas wrote: |>  I think we should
> still maintain termcap for compatibility. Otherwise |>  old binaries
> are going to break. | | Binary compat is maintained, except for the
> NetBSD extensions.
>
> - Are we providing all the termcap capabilities that have different
> names under terminfo?
> http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xcurses/terminfo.html

Yes.

> - Are you planning to link libtermcap.so to libterminfo.so?

Yes.

> - Will setting $TERMCAP still work? What are you planning to do with
> tset -s? - Who are we copying the terminfo library from? FreeBSD? -
> Something needs to be done with tn3270 (c3270 or whatever)

$TERMCAP will not work
tset -s just prints $TERM
I wrote the terminfo code, but the terminfo database is from ncurses.

> There are probably a few more things that will break that I have not
> considered so far...

Thanks

Roy