Terminfo

Tony L. Hansen hansen at pegasus.UUCP
Fri Dec 7 11:38:48 AEST 1984


< Terminfo users should be warned that one library supplied routine,
< tgets, uses floating point and can definitely slow down emacs output.
< The routine can easily be rewritten to use shift instructions.
< 
< That function should have been tputs.

I don't know what terminfo you're using, but the "official" version
distributed as part of System Vr2 contains NO floats or doubles within it.
If you're using some other public implementation of terminfo, (of which
there is at least one,) then all bets are off.

					Tony Hansen
					pegasus!hansen



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