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Termcap ("terminal capability") is a
legacy software library and
database used on Unix-like
computers that
enables programs to use
display computer terminals...
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termcap.so.4,-rpath,/lib/
termcap.so.4 -o
termcap.so.4 $
objdump -x
termcap.so.4
NEEDED libc.so.6
SONAME termcap.so.4
RPATH /lib/
termcap.so.4 In...
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implemented the
first terminfo library in 1981–1982 as an
improvement over
termcap. The
improvements include faster access to
stored terminal descriptions...
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support Rogue, a text-based
adventure game. It
originally used the
termcap library,
which was used in
other programs, such as the vi editor. The success...
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terminal capabilities.
Depending on the system, tput uses the
terminfo or
termcap database, as well as
looking into the
environment for the
terminal type...
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functions from the
termcap library, and
adding to that. A few
years later, Mary Ann Horton, who had
maintained the vi and
termcap sources at Berkeley...
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sequences were
different for
different terminals,
elaborate libraries such as
termcap ("terminal capabilities") and
utilities such as tput had to be created...
- capabilities. The
termcap (for "terminal capabilities")
library was
developed for BSD systems. It uses a
database stored in the file /etc/
termcap. This database...
- rate and any
buffers being full. Some
terminal control packages, such as
termcap,
employ "padding" (short
delays using millisecond granularity) to allow...
- string, e.g. in this
abbreviated ls -l output:
lrwxrwxrwx ...
termcap -> /usr/share/misc/
termcap lrwxrwxrwx ... S03xinetd -> ../init.d/xinetd One of the strengths...
