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1 | This is the GNU termcap library -- a library of C functions that |
2 | enable programs to send control strings to terminals in a way | |
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3 | independent of the terminal type. The GNU termcap library does not |
4 | place an arbitrary limit on the size of termcap entries, unlike most | |
5 | other termcap libraries. | |
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7 | Most of this package is also distributed with GNU Emacs, but it is |
8 | available in this separate distribution to make it easier to install | |
9 | as -ltermcap. However, use of termcap is discouraged. Termcap is | |
10 | being phased out in favor of the terminfo-based ncurses library, which | |
11 | contains an emulation of the termcap library routines in addition to | |
12 | an excellent curses implementation. ncurses is available from the | |
13 | usual GNU archive sites. | |
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15 | See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions. | |
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16 | Additionally: |
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18 | This package contains termcap.src, the latest official termcap data | |
19 | file. By default, it is not installed. The current version contains | |
20 | some entries that are more than 1023 bytes long, which is the largest | |
21 | value that is safe to use with the many historical applications that | |
22 | only allocate a 1024 byte termcap buffer (telnet, for example). If | |
23 | you make sure that all of your programs allocate buffers of at least | |
24 | 2500 bytes, or let the termcap library do it by passing a NULL | |
25 | pointer, then it is safe to install the new termcap file, as described | |
26 | below. | |
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28 | You can give configure two special options: | |
29 | --enable-install-termcap install the termcap data file | |
30 | --with-termcap=FILE use data file FILE instead of /etc/termcap | |
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32 | Please report any bugs in this library to bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu. | |
33 | You can check which version of the library you have by using the RCS | |
34 | `ident' command on libtermcap.a. |