Re: -ltermcap option...
In article <[🔎] 199809031750.SAA02628@tux.pinguim.pt>,
Luis Sismeiro <luis.sismeiro@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Matt McLean wrote:
>> change the -ltermcap to -lncurses. AFAIK, debian doesn't use termcap
>> anymore.
>
>And why is that?
Because otherwise we'd have to keep /etc/termcap and /etc/terminfo
in sync, now we just have /etc/terminfo, and the ncurses library
emulates termcap transparantly.
Besides, termcap has officially been declared obsolete.
Mike.
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