termcap vs terminfo

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 05), sigsegv at mail.ru said:
> I've noticed that the base system does not have terminfo, but instead
> comes with termcap. Apparently BSD always had termcap and System V
> had terminfo. I don't want to start a religious war as to which one
> is better, but only want to ask if anyone has experienced problems
> when porting ncurses applications from BSD to System V and vice
> versa, and what could be done to minimise such problems.

FreeBSD's libcurses is ncurses, and it also uses the same terminal
descriptions that terminfo-using systems do (just in termcap format),
so you shouldn't have any problems.  If you want to be portable across
all systems, I think some commercial systems' curses libraries don't do
color, so you'll have to check for that.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com