In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luis Sismeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- "Seed me, Seymour" -- a random number generator meets the big green mother from outer space
