Re: tn3270, mset and map3270

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:23:46PM +0900, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
> We discussed termcap versus terminfo issue many years ago,
> and we selected termcap since it is more flexible.
> termcap allows users to use local capabilities
> (not defined by standard) naturally,
> but terminfo doesn't have portable way to do that.

Can you give a real world example of where this functionality is
actually used and why terminfo(3) doesn't allow it.

Joerg