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- From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: Any terminfo compilers available?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.004020.17118@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:40:20 GMT
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- bhays@teal.csn.org (Boyd Hays) writes:
- : I need to write a program that parses terminfo source files. There was
- : something available about 5 years ago, a small lex scanner, but I can't
- : find it anywhere.
-
- I'm not sure about where to find it, but since most Unices come with
- the 'tic(1)' command, I'd say look at the free Unix directories
- (like linux or 386bsd) for the sources to tic.
-
- I think GNU has a terminfo package, too... so you may want to
- grab it from your local ftp site and canniballize the source
- code (unless you're going to use it commercially, that is.)
-
- Other than that, maybe you can play around with tic and achieve
- whatever you're trying to achieve...
-
- -Ade.
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