Just got mc-4.6.0-pre1

Miven Dooligan dooligan at intergate.ca
Sun Sep 22 04:22:30 UTC 2002


Pavel Roskin wrote:

>
>Option --with-terminfo is dead.  Everything else is default except
>--with-tm-x-support, and you can now see the default values in the output
>of "configure --help".
>
>>You brought up the terminfo/termcap issue, which has puzzled me for
>>quite a while.  A while back I was under the impression that termcap was
>>slowly being phased out in favor of the terminfo directory, and frankly
>>I've never even tried compiling with termcap.  Although, now I see that
>>I have a 705k termcap in /etc, I'll try it out...
>>
>
>That's very interesting.  You seem to be under impression that termcap is
>not being phased out.  Your original understanding was correct, but what
>was the reason to doubt it?
>
Well, the comings and goings of linux can be confusing
at times.  You said that --with-terminfo was dead, and I
thought that you meant you weren't supporting it anymore,
but I guess you meant that it's the default.






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