And, of course, you must remember programming the printout so the line printer played music!
--henry On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:17 PM, John Campbell <soup...@gmail.com> wrote: > The terminfo "database", these days, is some kind of binary... and, from > the source file(s), there is a program to "compile" them into a structure > the curses library can just suck in as chunk and then use. > > I kinda miss the old /etc/termcap ... yes, I've been around. Everything > balances out over time... > > (chuckles) > > "When I was _your_ age, we didn't have none of these fancy graphics you > kids have these days... Naw, if you wanted to see pretty pictures, you ran > your job to the card punch 'n held 'em up to the light!" > > And, yeah, I recall the magtapes w/ line printer files which would > overprint to make pictures... ( RECFM=FBA LRECL=133 BLKSIZE=1330 ) > > -soup > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
