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Termcap and Terminfo

By Linda Mui , Tim O'Reilly , John Strang

Book information

Publisher
O'Reilly
Year
1988
ISBN
9780937175224, 0937175226
LCC
QA76.76.O63 S765 1990
Open Library ID
OL15464643M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
3 MB (3186585 bytes)
Series
A Nutshell handbook
Edition
3
Pages
139\139
Topic
Computers
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Orientation
yes
Scanned
landscape
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

While termcap and terminfo are no longer as important as they once were, due to the growth of the X terminal market and increased standardization among ASCII terminals, handling different terminal types can still be a headache for system administrators. The termcap and terminfo databases are UNIX's solution to the difficulty of supporting many terminals without writing special drivers for each terminal. Termcap (BSD) and terminfo (System V) describe the features of hundreds of terminals, together with a library of routines that allow programs to use those capabilities. This book documents hundreds of capabilities and syntax for termcap and terminfo, writing and debugging terminal descriptions, and terminal initialization.

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