Re: termcap(5)

[Ignatios Souvatzis <is%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 04:48:23PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:39:11 +0000 (UTC), uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost wrote:
> >Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >>New version attached.
> >
> >You lost the section about escapes in string caps.  In the old manual
> >it starts with:
> >
> >     A number of escape sequences are provided in the
> >string-valued capabili-
> >     ties for easy encoding of control characters there.  [...]
> 
> I lost that on purpose as that is describing termcap specific escape
> codes which are also used in terminfo.
> It has nothing todo with the termcap file format itself.

Are you sure? Unless you're talking about something else, I've needed
and used

        :ff=\004:fo:\

/etc/printcap.

Regards,
        -is