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- From: michael@gandalf.moria (Michael Haardt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: terminfo?
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:18:15 +0100
- Organization: An old and gray machine, somewhere in Moria.
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- Message-ID: <9301254342@gandalf.moria>
- References: <1993Jan24.065813.1815@netcom.com>
- Reply-To: u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt)
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- In article <1993Jan24.065813.1815@netcom.com>, zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) writes:
- > In article <C1CEEE.LHL@mach1.wlu.ca> kfisher3@mach1.wlu.ca (kevin fisher U) writes:
- >>My question is this, will Linux at some later date support the terminfo
- >>database, or will linux continue to use termcap?
- >
- > terminfo support is included with the ncurses package which is currently under
- > BETA testing. ncurses.lzh is available on tsx-11.mit.edu, ncurses.tar.Z is on
- > sunsite.unc.edu
-
- There is also tinfo, which was posted in a sources newsgroup some time
- ago. It compiles out of the box on linux and seems to work nice. tinfo
- is a library with combined terminfo/termcap support and also contains
- programs to convert between termcap source/terminfo source/terminfo
- binary in all directions.
-
- If anybody is interested, I can upload it.
-
- Michael
-