termcap maintainer?

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 21 20:47:00 GMT 2005


On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:37:35PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 04:30:53PM -0400, Schulman.Andrew@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
>>>I'm the maintainer but the package has been deprecated on UNIX/Linux
>>>for quite some time.  You should be using terminfo.
>>
>>terminfo already includes definitions for screen terminals, so that's
>>no problem.  Are you saying then that I should just ignore the extra
>>termcap entries for screen, screen-bce, and screen-s, which don't
>>appear in /etc/termcap?
>
>There is no harm in including them but I really don't think there are
>(m)any programs out there who would take advantage of them.
>
>I'll make a new release today.

Done.  I'll hold off announcing this until after you've released screen,
though.  I wouldn't want to get anyone prematurely excited about having
screen available at long last.

cgf



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