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- From: neuhaus@vier.informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Neuhaus (HiWi Mattern))
- Subject: Re: Major TERMCAP question!!
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 10:20:22 GMT
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- bkr@drdhh.hanse.de (Bjoern Kriews) writes:
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- >woocm@essex.ac.uk (Chris Wood) writes:
- >> I know that this all has something to do with TERMCAP, a little
- >>shell cariable that has lots of funny characters in it. But what the
- >>hell is termcap exactly. [...] Where can I read about it.
-
- You should definitely read the termcap.texinfo manual that comes with
- GNU Emacs. It tells you more than you ever wanted to know about
- termcap, and it also says why it's a good idea to use the GNU termcap
- library. (It *is* a good idea, really.)
-
- The `man 5 termcap' idea is also good, although the manpage is *much*
- more concise than the GNU manual. Given that the manpage is a
- reference tool, this is not surprising.
-
- You could also look at the source code for any curses library.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
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