On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 12:35:09PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 03:44:10PM +0100, Roy Marples wrote: > > You're ignoring the other advantages of terminfo as already discussed. > > Sorry, I probably overlooked something but right now it's unclear to me > why "we have a good working non standard implementation" is better in > terminfo than in termcap world. > > I'm a bit suprised nobody suggested to use a plist based completely new > format and extended termlib API + termcap compatible environement yet. ...other than the absence of existing applications which use the extended API, as well as the absence of applications which could easily (no rewrites) use it? -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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