[TUHS] I swear! I rtfm'ed

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-01-01 02:29, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> All those terminal quirks made writing termcap entries challenging
> (I wrote a few), and made the comments in the termcap file interesting
> reading for the frustration and cursing of terminal firmware authors.
> All kinds of history of the evolution of terminals is captured therein.
>
> The removal of the ability to read the source is - IMHO - what
> greatly impeded adoption of the AT&T "termlib" replacement for
> termcap: they stopped distributing the terminal database source
> (they distributed just the binary "compiled" versions), and made it
> harder to write new entries.

I was way to removed from the action to know, but why did people slowly 
move over to termlib? Was there really any advantages over termcap?

	Johnny

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