On 25/02/2010 12:29, ITOH Yasufumi wrote:
In article<20100223164900.GB5957%britannica.bec.de@localhost> joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost writes: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.Please take a look at /usr/share/misc/termcap file. There are some "extension capabilities" which are commented out. This means at least someone (besides me) used locally defined capabilities.
What makes you think that terminfo(5) doesn't allow this also? Thanks Roy