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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit)
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:58:34 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.055834.6643@kithrup.COM>
- References: <1992Sep8.134824.5149@pegasus.com> <1992Sep08.192000.4488@kithrup.COM> <1992Sep10.015548.4228@pegasus.com>
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- In article <1992Sep10.015548.4228@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
- >Termcap/terminfo is a standard that's available on, pretty much, all
- >Unixes. So why leave it out of the POSIX standard?
-
- Termcap and terminfo are two different things. Or aren't you aware of that?
- Which one should be standardised on?
-
- Choose termcap, and you choose an outdated, limited, and obsolete
- technology.
-
- Choose terminfo, and you leave out all of the non-SysV sites out there, such
- as BSD systems. And you are still choosing a limited and obsolete
- technology.
-
- Create an alternative, and you run the risk of creating something that is
- unworkable, overly complicated, difficult to implement, or just out and out
- broken. Ask Henry Spencer or Dan Bernstein about that.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how
- sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around."
- -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM)
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-