terminfo

[Stephen Hocking]

In article <8431 at smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> Now, if your vendor neglected to supply you with the terminal
> description text files, that is the real problem.  They should be
> provided even with a binary distribution (although they don't need
> to be loaded onto the system disk).


Quite a few vendors now supply a program called "untic" instead of the
text files. "untic ansi" spurts out the dis-assembled version on
stdout. This is in a form which can be compiled by tic. What a lot of people
haven't mentioned is that the system V curses actually knows about standout
glitches and leaves a space as appropriate on the screen. Programming from
the terminfo side of things is a bit easier, as one doesnt have to
preallocate all those 1k buffers & go through painful tgetstrs, tgetnums etc
etc. The thing is all pre-defined.

	Stephen

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