> > Last I heard, terminfo didn't have a reasonable replacement for
> > the TERMCAP environment variable.  I'd appreciate an update if that's
> > now out-of-date.
>
> This is also true.  The one thing you can do is maintain your own
> private database in a directory tree ~/.terminfo, but that is hardly
> as nice as having just a single TERMCAP variable.  However, the rest of
> the world is moving towards terminfo, so...

Much as I dislike terminfo, could this at least not be fixed? If not,
that is yet another argument against it.. (oops, that reeks of flame
wars..)


-Olaf.
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