Termcap ("terminal capability") is a legacy software library and database used on Unix-like computers that enables programs to use display computer terminals...
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-soname,termcap.so.4,-rpath,/lib/termcap.so.4 -o termcap.so.4 $ objdump -x termcap.so.4 NEEDED libc.so.6 SONAME termcap.so.4 RPATH /lib/termcap.so.4 In...
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terminal capabilities. Depending on the system, tput uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal type...
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Ncurses (category Termcap)
to support Rogue, a text-based adventure game. It originally used the termcap library, which was used in other programs, such as the vi editor. The success...
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implemented the first terminfo library in 1981–1982 as an improvement over termcap. The improvements include faster access to stored terminal descriptions...
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functions from the termcap library, and adding to that. A few years later, Mary Ann Horton, who had maintained the vi and termcap sources at Berkeley...
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sequences were different for different terminals, elaborate libraries such as termcap ("terminal capabilities") and utilities such as tput had to be created...
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capabilities. The termcap (for "terminal capabilities") library was developed for BSD systems. It uses a database stored in the file /etc/termcap. This database...
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rate and any buffers being full. Some terminal control packages, such as termcap, employ "padding" (short delays using millisecond granularity) to allow...
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with all the neat features like spell checking, login/logout watching and termcap support that were "probably too weird to make it into an AT&T product"...
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Unicode characters KOI-8 Benjamin Riefenstahl (26 Feb 2001). "Re: Cygwin Termcap information involving extended ascii charicters". cygwin (Mailing list)...
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option; it checks only the Unix file type and file permissions and uses the termcap database When the option to use color to indicate item types is selected...
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to the 2BSD and 4BSD Berkeley Unix distributions, including: curses and termcap: a hardware-independent library for controlling cursor movement, screen...
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string, e.g. in this abbreviated ls -l output: lrwxrwxrwx ... termcap -> /usr/share/misc/termcap lrwxrwxrwx ... S03xinetd -> ../init.d/xinetd One of the strengths...
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applications, such as w3m, and older versions of pine and vi use the less-able termcap library, performing many of the functions associated with curses within...
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ISBN 978-1-351-09400-9. Free Software Foundation (November 7, 1998). "Padding". The Termcap Library. Retrieved 2024-01-13. Golden, V. Ellen (April 14, 1981). "An Introduction...
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control and another to the pseudo terminal concept and to libraries like termcap and curses that build atop it. Stevens adds three chapters giving more...
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input forms using the appropriate control codes; In Unix-like systems the termcap or terminfo files, the stty utility, and the TERM environment variable...
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over a longer time, using delays after time-consuming operations (e.g. in termcap) or employing a mechanism to resend data which has not been received correctly...
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elements from BSD, notably the vi text editor and its supporting libraries (termcap and curses). Its kernel featured some original extensions by Microsoft...
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case is a motherboard with a modem port, keyboard port, and an aux. port. Termcap provides support for the Visual 50 by way of the entries named v50, vi50...
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W3m (category Termcap)
w3m is a free and open source text-based web browser licensed under the MIT license. It differs from other text-based browsers by supporting elements such...
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such as KolibriOS. Depending on the system, clear uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal type...
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the TERM environment variable (and, optionally for the termcap and terminfo libraries, the TERMCAP and TERMINFO environment variables, respectively). This...
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arrow and function keys, macros, and improved performance by replacing termcap with terminfo. Up to version 3.7 of vi, created in October 1981, UC Berkeley...
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the downstairs (a '>' sign) to the next level. Apart from the original termcap interface shown above, there are other interfaces that replace standard...
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clients. ircII is written in the C programming language and implements a termcap, text-mode, user interface. Encrypted Transport Layer Security connections...
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license: we're going to standard BSD, copyright UC Berkeley". Lionel Sambuc. "Termcap update, replacing elvis by nvi". "nvi commitlog". Archived from the original...
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Ne (text editor) (category Termcap)
terminfo library, but it can also be compiled using a bundled copy of the GNU termcap implementation. There is also a Cygwin version. It was developed by Sebastiano...
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(the first mechanism for binary Email attachments), w and load averages, termcap, and curses. Her PhD dissertation was the creation of a new type of syntax-directed...
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