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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] vt
Date: Mon,  9 Apr 2001 15:22:49 +0000
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> the compiled crap is impossible.  for all its faults, at least
> termcap was ascii text.

Terminfo is text, too, but the compiled form is used at run time.
There are utilities to convert back and forth,