[TUHS] Termcap vs terminfo

Lyndon Nerenberg lyndon at orthanc.ca
Sun Jan 11 08:51:00 AEST 2015


On Jan 10, 2015, at 2:43 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:

> Most modern curses capability entries for 'xterm' and friends use the memory buffer windowing capability (a term I made up)

Umm ... I meant 'just made up' as in "I can't think of a better name this second."  I'm pretty sure somebody else invented memory buffers and sliding pointers.
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