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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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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-01-01 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.116.1420056874.3354.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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