Re: HEADS UP: terminfo imported into -current

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

On 03/02/2010 17:17, Brian Buhrow wrote:
>         Hello.  How is this an improvement over termcap? which is a single
> place where terminal definitions are defined, as opposed to a tree of
> definitions?

My terminfo implementaion also supports a single place of definitons
netbsd-5 has /usr/share/misc/termcap which is used to generate 
/usr/share/misc/termcap.db

-current has /usr/share/misc/terminfo which is used to generate 
/usr/share/misc/terminfo.db

> I hope you  remembered the window(1) utility when you
> imported this change.  The window(1) utility provides its own terminal
> definition, and when you ssh to other machines in a window, you need the
> .termcap entry to work.

A quick look at the code suggests this is to purely set the number of 
columns and lines in the window. A lot of applications respect $COLUMNS 
and $LINES - would it not be better (and more portable) to set those?

> Do you provide a captoinfo utility?

No

Thanks

Roy