i did it again

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-04-01 03:46, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:42:55 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas
><keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>On 2005-04-01 03:31, Gert Cuykens <gert.cuykens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> what is a termcap ?
>>
>> There's a manpage for this one.
>
>
> so termcap is like a x server but then for terminals ?

Not really.  The termcap(5) manpage describes this in (hopefully)
adequate detail:

% TERMCAP(5)            FreeBSD File Formats Manual           TERMCAP(5)
%
% NAME
%      termcap -- terminal capability data base
%
% SYNOPSIS
%      termcap
%
% DESCRIPTION
%      The termcap file is a data base describing terminals, used, for
%      example, by vi(1) and ncurses(3).  Terminals are described in
%      termcap by giving a set of capabilities that they have and by
%      describing how operations are performed.  Padding requirements
%      and initialization sequences are included in termcap.
%      [...]