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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!kithrup!sef From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: AT&T Long Distance Boycott (was: BNR2SS, Mach, and The Lawsuit) Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:58:34 GMT Message-ID: <1992Sep10.055834.6643@kithrup.COM> References: <1992Sep8.134824.5149@pegasus.com> <1992Sep08.192000.4488@kithrup.COM> <1992Sep10.015548.4228@pegasus.com> Lines: 23 In article <1992Sep10.015548.4228@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes: >Termcap/terminfo is a standard that's available on, pretty much, all >Unixes. So why leave it out of the POSIX standard? Termcap and terminfo are two different things. Or aren't you aware of that? Which one should be standardised on? Choose termcap, and you choose an outdated, limited, and obsolete technology. Choose terminfo, and you leave out all of the non-SysV sites out there, such as BSD systems. And you are still choosing a limited and obsolete technology. Create an alternative, and you run the risk of creating something that is unworkable, overly complicated, difficult to implement, or just out and out broken. Ask Henry Spencer or Dan Bernstein about that. -- Sean Eric Fagan | "You can't get lost in one room, no matter how sef@kithrup.COM | little effort you make to learn your way around." -----------------+ -- William E Davidsen (william@crd.GE.COM) Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.