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To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>,
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Subject: Re: termcap bug on Linux
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Bart Schaefer wrote:

> On May 27,  5:09pm, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> } Subject: termcap bug on Linux
> }
> } Mandrake cooker (currently glibc-2.2.3, termcap-11.0.1-4mdk) compiled 
> } with termcap, no ncurses.  tgetflag() returns 0 for both unset and 
> } nonexsiting flags, which means that $termcap[cap] returns "no" for 
> } almost everything except numeric capabilities.
> 
> Does the following patch help?  This duplicates code from echotc() into
> gettermcap() -- so the two should at least now agree with each other,
> which they might not have before, even if they're both wrong.
> 


Yes.


> Does something similar need to go into scantermcap() ?
>


I guess, no. In scantermcap() we know type of each capability.

-andrej