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From: peter@rulingia.com (Peter Jeremy)
Subject: [TUHS] termcap vs terminfo (was: I swear! I rtfm'ed)
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 18:06:13 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150105070613.GB10940@server.rulingia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3578.1420226008@cesium.clock.org>

On 2015-Jan-02 11:13:28 -0800, "Erik E. Fair" <fair-tuhs at netbsd.org> wrote:
>your terminal into the TERMCAP environment variable at login time,
>which my .login does to this day - that puts it already in RAM,

But you pay for the size of $TERMCAP in every process you run.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-05  7:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.125.1420128672.3354.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2015-01-01 16:21 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-01-01 17:04   ` Warner Losh
2015-01-02  1:50     ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-01-02 19:13       ` Erik E. Fair
2015-01-05  7:06         ` Peter Jeremy [this message]
2015-01-06  0:40           ` John Cowan
2015-01-06 12:22             ` arnold
2015-01-06 16:02               ` [TUHS] termcap vs terminfo Mary Ann Horton
2015-01-06 17:12                 ` arnold
2015-01-06 16:32               ` [TUHS] termcap vs terminfo (was: I swear! I rtfm'ed) Warner Losh
2015-01-06 19:57               ` [TUHS] pdp11 UNIX memory allocation. Was: " Milo Velimirović
2015-01-06 20:01                 ` Clem Cole
2015-01-02 20:12     ` [TUHS] " Steffen Nurpmeso

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