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On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 06:10:30PM +0200, Gert Menke wrote: |
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> But isn't an /etc/termcap a good thing to have? Why does it suddenly take |
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> so long to parse it? Perhaps it has been replaced with a much bigger |
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> version than before during the last baselayout update? It's 16k lines long |
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> which seems quite huge... |
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I do not think that having a termcap at all is a good thing. All halfway |
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sane programs use curses instead of the old termcap routines, especially |
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as curses has routines to emulate the old termcap routines. So for very |
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old software that insists on linking against libtermcap you can in most |
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cases substitute libcurses (or libncurses). |
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Jens-Uwe Mager <pgp-mailto:62CFDB25> |
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