Tset on A/UX

[Ken Mandelberg]

I think the following is true:

1) A/UX curses following the System V model can only operate on
   terminfo based descriptions.
2) For backward compatibility the termcap libarary routines are
   provided for extracting data from the termcap database.
3) Tset has been ported from Berkeley Unix and still uses only
   the termcap database.
4) Apple provides a sample profile that uses tset.

The net effect of this is that if you use the Apple profile with tset
you must have entries for each terminal type in both the termcap
and terminfo data bases, although the content of the one in the termcap
data base is irrelevant.

It strikes me that a sensible improvement would be if Apple either
extended tset to consult terminfo, or avoided its use in the profile.
Keeping both databases up to date is not attractive.

It would be helpful if Apple provided "captoinfo" a utility on later
releases of System V, to make it easier to convert termcap entries
into terminfo descriptions.
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