Terminfo()--Ideas needed. System V

Ted Lemonmellon/.name mellon at mit-prep.ARPA
Wed May 21 10:54:40 AEST 1986


>   Everyone is entitled to their opinion, of course, but I think Mr. Todd is
>   primarily annoyed because he has managed to get a binary-only system.  I
>   can understand his frustration at trying to use a UNIX without sources,
>   and not just with terminfo.  If he had source, he could look in
>   /usr/src/lib/libcurses/terminfo for the sources.

Considering the *huge* cost of a source license for UNIX, if you don't
happen to be an educational institution, this statement is ridiculous.
In order for UNIX to be useful, it either has to come with source
code for a reasonable price (my preference), or it has to *work right*!

			       _MelloN_

P.S.  (Pure Sacrilege)  I don't think UNIX is particularly useful.
-- 
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