terminfo

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1553 at mcgp1.UUCP> fst at mcgp1.UUCP (Skip Tavakkolian) writes:
-In article <8377 at smoke.ARPA>, gwyn at smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
-> In article <508 at altos86.UUCP> clp at altos86.UUCP (Chuck L. Peterson) writes:
-> >Why does terminfo exist?
-> Because termcap was too limited.
-Please explain.

To take just one example, the cursor positioning sequence is not
sufficiently programmable to accommodate some 132-column terminals.