TERMINFO to TERMCAP conversion.

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Wed Apr 11 06:00:13 AEST 1990


> It is not fixable without fixing all of the old crufty programs that
> have hardwired 1024 arrays.

Fix the old programs. If you can't, ignore the user's 1024-byte array and
malloc your own.

> | So add a "cp" to supplement "cm" with a more powerful syntax, and phase
> | out "cm". Or just add a "%(expression)" form to "cm".

> And then break all programs which use 'cm' as the specification calls
> for.

Those programs won't work on your Weirdcorp-100 terminal anyway, right?
This doesn't differ in any way from the existing situation.
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