termcap vs terminfo, less, and Mac OS X

2006-06-02 Thread Walt Pawley
I've been messing about with FreeBSD lately, though mostly I use Mac OS X. I've grown accustomed to using less as a pager, generally preferring the manner in which it would make all the scrolled through crud vanish when I was done pawing about in it. But less didn't behave that way when telnet'd

Re: termcap vs terminfo, less, and Mac OS X

2006-06-02 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Walt Pawley wrote: I've been messing about with FreeBSD lately, though mostly I use Mac OS X. I've grown accustomed to using less as a pager, generally preferring the manner in which it would make all the scrolled through crud vanish when I was done

termcap vs terminfo

2004-06-05 Thread sigsegv
I've noticed that the base system does not have terminfo, but instead comes with termcap. Apparently BSD always had termcap and System V had terminfo. I don't want to start a religious war as to which one is better, but only want to ask if anyone has experienced problems when porting ncurses

Re: termcap vs terminfo

2004-06-05 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that the base system does not have terminfo, but instead comes with termcap. Apparently BSD always had termcap and System V had terminfo. I don't want to start a religious war as to which one is better, but only want to ask if anyone

Re: termcap vs terminfo

2004-06-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 05), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I've noticed that the base system does not have terminfo, but instead comes with termcap. Apparently BSD always had termcap and System V had terminfo. I don't want to start a religious war as to which one is better, but only want to ask if