On Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 10:44:58 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote:
How?
The file /etc/termcap has the data too so opening it and quickly
parsing should give the same result as the environment variable.
It looks like this:
vg|vt-generic|Generic VT entries:\
:bs:mi:ms:pt:xn:xo:it#8:\
<snip>
# Slackware 3.1 linux termcap entry (Sat Apr 27 23:03:58 CDT
1996):
lx|linux|console|con80x25|LINUX System Console:\
:do=^J:co#80:li#25:cl=\E[H\E[J:sf=\ED:sb=\EM:\
<snip>
and so on. The $TERM variable is used as a key into one of those
names, then the rest of the data is on the following lines.
The termcap entries can also inherit from other entries, but
again it is just a key lookup into the list.
