Re: termcap(5)

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 18:03:05 +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 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.

Yes I'm sure.
The capability returned is \004 and it's up to the program that uses 
that printcap entry to process the escape codes.
Another program could equally use 0 to escape with and translate the 
above to example to \04.
The only escaping as noted by the termcap format is to join lines with 
a trailing \

Thanks

Roy