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This is the first public distribution of a termcap library I had to write
to get another project working several years ago, before I had access to
a real unix system and was developing for a unix look-alike that didn't
have a termcap library.
Now that it looks like there will be some support for using the SER:
device with a terminal, talking to a CLI environment, this should aid
that effort and help make programs relatively terminal independent, as
in unix.
Seems like I remember there were a couple of unimplemented features, but
the only one that comes immediately to mind is the feature of the real
termcap library of being able to say that this entry is like another
standard entry except for a few fields, or the ability to turn off
specific entries.
Some special notes, for the AMIGA implementation:
1) On the AMIGA, looks for the environment string "TERMCAP".
If not found, looks for "etc:termcap", where the logical
device etc: is set via the "assign" command, I.E.
assign etc: df0:etc
so you can then put your termcap file in df0:etc/termcap
and it will be found unless TERMCAP is set to point to
somewhere else.
2) The Manx environment apparently supports getenv(), since
this was resolved at link time in the test program, but I
did not have time to test this feature before release.
3) These objects are compiled with the Manx compiler. I have
not, as yet, tested it with Lattice C.
Enjoy
-Fred