From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:29:54 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] I swear! I rtfm'ed In-Reply-To: <54A48C4A.90307@update.uu.se> References: Message-ID: <13336.1420075794@cesium.clock.org> All those terminal quirks made writing termcap entries challenging (I wrote a few), and made the comments in the termcap file interesting reading for the frustration and cursing of terminal firmware authors. All kinds of history of the evolution of terminals is captured therein. The removal of the ability to read the source is - IMHO - what greatly impeded adoption of the AT&T "termlib" replacement for termcap: they stopped distributing the terminal database source (they distributed just the binary "compiled" versions), and made it harder to write new entries. Erik