Re: Re^2: Uploads to chiark
> Michael> I absolutely agree. Under Debian we use terminfo instead
> Michael> of termcap.
>
> Why? Could some send me the exact reasons for this decision? The termcap
We don't want support two different mechanisms for doing essentially
the same thing.
> library is more than one magnitude smaller than ncurses (11kB vs. 235kB)!
If everything uses ncurses, the shared library will usually be in
memory already.
David
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