[TUHS] I swear! I rtfm'ed

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Fri Jan 2 06:11:30 AEST 2015


On Thu, 1 Jan 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> 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?

It was a lot more flexible; attribute names could be of arbitrary length, 
whereas Termcap confined you to two characters IIRC.  You had to get a bit 
imaginative in the naming of new attributes...


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