Re: Inverse termcap/terminfo?

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From: Skip Montanaro
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 1988 16:12

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In article <147@heart-of-gold> jc@heart-of-gold (John M Chambers x7780
1E342) writes: 
>My question this time around is: Is there (or is anyone working on) a
>product that is the inverse of termcap and/or terminfo?

Psterm as delivered with Sun's NeWS product does a pretty good job of
what you want. It only knows about what is actually in termcap,
however. As an example, it doesn't really make a very good vt100
emulator for connecting to a VMS VAX, because DEC's software uses lots
of escape sequences not normally found in the vt100 termcap entry. As
a short-term "solution", I suppose I'd like to see at least a no-op
field that would allow terminal emulators to parse but ignore certain
sequences. Longer term solutions would have to include more
capabilities so the terminal emulator could behave better.

Skip Montanaro (montanaro@sprite.steinmetz.ge.com, montanaro@ge-crd.arpa)

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