termcap maintainer?

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 21 20:37:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:53PM -0400, Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
>> I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux for
>> quite some time.  You should be using terminfo.
>
>terminfo already includes definitions for screen terminals, so that's no 
>problem.  Are you saying then that I should just ignore the extra termcap 
>entries for screen, screen-bce, and screen-s, which don't appear in 
>/etc/termcap?

There is no harm in including them but I really don't think there are (m)any
programs out there who would take advantage of them.

I'll make a new release today.

cgf



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