From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] I swear! I rtfm'ed
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 07:11:30 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1501020708550.58880@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54A561A9.6030808@update.uu.se>
On Thu, 1 Jan 2015, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> I was way to removed from the action to know, but why did people slowly
> move over to termlib? Was there really any advantages over termcap?
It was a lot more flexible; attribute names could be of arbitrary length,
whereas Termcap confined you to two characters IIRC. You had to get a bit
imaginative in the naming of new attributes...
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2014-12-31 23:52 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-01-01 1:29 ` Erik E. Fair
2015-01-01 15:03 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-01-01 15:59 ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-01-01 20:18 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-01-01 20:11 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2015-01-01 16:01 ` Clem Cole
2015-01-01 16:11 ` Johnny Billquist
2015-01-01 16:59 ` Clem Cole
2014-12-31 16:25 Noel Chiappa
[not found] <mailman.110.1420006566.3354.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2014-12-31 10:37 ` Johnny Billquist
2014-12-31 11:13 ` arnold
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2014-12-30 22:56 Jacob Ritorto
2014-12-30 22:59 ` Milo Velimirovic
2014-12-30 23:03 ` Larry McVoy
2014-12-31 0:03 ` Steve Nickolas
2014-12-30 23:05 ` Warren Toomey
2014-12-31 0:01 ` Jacob Ritorto
2014-12-31 2:22 ` Dan Stromberg
2014-12-31 2:33 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-12-31 5:44 ` Jacob Ritorto
2014-12-31 6:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2014-12-31 6:36 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-12-31 14:58 ` Tim Bradshaw
2014-12-31 15:31 ` arnold
2014-12-31 15:37 ` Milo Velimirovic
2014-12-31 17:37 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2014-12-31 20:09 ` Larry McVoy
2014-12-31 22:25 ` Jacob Ritorto
2014-12-31 16:11 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-12-31 20:14 ` Clem Cole
2014-12-31 20:45 ` Erik E. Fair
2014-12-31 21:05 ` Clem Cole
2014-12-31 22:30 ` Jacob Ritorto
2014-12-31 23:06 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-12-31 23:11 ` Jacob Ritorto
2015-01-01 15:45 ` Clem Cole
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