"Garrett D'Amore - sun microsystems" <gd78059 at sac.sfbay.sun.com> wrote:
> COMMANDS IN /usr/ucb/ > --------------------- > > One possible concern is our own commands that are delivered in /usr/ucb. > > The project team has undertaken the effort to investigate these further. > All of them have now been converted (in a local workspace) to use safer > modern SYSV libraries located in /usr/lib ... with just a couple of minor > exceptions. > > reset and tset use libtermcap in ways such that the terminfo replacement > does not provide equivalent functionality. While we believe that these > utilities should be converted to use native terminfo instead of termcap, > it turns out that it is simply more expedient to link a private copy of > libtermcap statically against these two utilities. Updating them to use > terminfo should be the subject of another effort, with a separate CR. Terminfo indeed is not compatible enough to support all termcap based applications. If you need a 100% compatible modern replacement, look for libxtermcap from: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/ It was written from scratch in 1986, it is higly portable and it supports new ideas from BSD like e.g. TERMPATH= Note that you of course cannot remove /etc/termcap and that you should think about upgrading the file from time to time. J?rg -- EMail:joerg at schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js at cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
