On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 01:06:14AM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > I see! Indeed, I did not realize from reading the manpage (as I focused > just on the main -C paragraph) that I need the -r and -T switches too. > (Well, if I noticed -r, I would have figured -T out, probably.) > > Judging by the wrong usage in Term::Cap, I'm probably not alone so > a brief clarification might indeed be a good idea.
man infocmp shows this (not explaining size-restrictions):
-T eliminates size-restrictions on the generated text. This is
mainly useful for testing and analysis, since the compiled
descriptions are limited (e.g., 1023 for termcap, 4096 for ter-
minfo).
However, -T is ncurses-specific (won't work with Solaris, etc):
EXTENSIONS
The -E, -F, -G, -R, -T, -V, -a, -e, -f, -g, -i, -l, -p, -q and -t
options are not supported in SVr4 curses.
A lot of termcap-related stuff is either intended to be portable,
or simply hasn't been enhanced since the 1990s. I made a page
describing some of the termcap issues here:
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tctest.html
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