Re: TERMCAP vs. TERMINFO?

In <DEyxqz.6IH@nntpa.cb.att.com> lou2@cbnews.cb.att.com (louis.avrami..jr) writes: > >Hi everyone, > > The fellow in our group who set up INFORMIX Online 5.02 >is out on disability, and we're trying to figure out some of the >things that have been done. Our development and production machines >are respectively an AT&T 3455 and AT&T 3555, running UNIX Sytem V >Release 4, version 3.0. For some reason, the TERMCAP variable has >been defined as $INFORMIXDIR/etc/termcap, and TERMINFO has not >been defined, despite the fact that this is a System V machine, and >the terminfo library is inherent to the OS. > Does anyone know of some reason why the termcap provided by >Informix would be utilized, instead of terminfo? Any ideas would >be greatly appreciated. > >Thanks, > >Lou Avrami >AT&T Law & Govt. Affairs Lou: I have discovered three reasons for using termcap over terminfo: 1) Color seems to be easier to implement. 2) the DOS/windows emulation packages I use seem to work better under termcap 3) I have actually had to get terminals to work. I know that's pretty much a dead technology still with us. ed schaefer