> Is a hashed-termcap-databse-with-4k-buffer completely out of the question?
> Would termcap strings longer than bytes break too many other termcap 
> libraries?  Unless it's a transient error, the existing pcvt entry seems
> to suggest not... 

In investigating this bug, I discovered that some tgetent() implementations
simply overflow the buffer (like ours did), and others truncate the entry at
1024 chars.  Some in the latter category quietly succeed, while others print
a warning message and return failure. 

The "compatibility" tgetent() functions provided with terminfo, seem to 
ignore the buffer completely.

	--jtc