On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:43:40PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > On 09/02/2010 15:37, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:51:52PM +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > >> > >>The only thing I'm willing to do at this point is consider making > >>$TERMINFO be respected as a terminfo description. > > > >$TERMINFO and $TERMCAP don't have the same semantics, IIRC. > > > > It doesn't say so in the ncurses man pages, but from the source it > *looks* like $TERMINFO can also be a description as well as a location, > just like $TERMCAP. Maybe Thomas E. Dickey can chime in as he subs to > this list. It's been a low-priority item to allow $TERMINFO to be interpreted as a description (for quite a while - I have over a thousand items, and this is one of the oldest ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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