How to get terminal control without TERMCAP?

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From: Ronald Mueller
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:00

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If every terminaltype has a proper entry in etc/termcap and the termcap
library is installed correctly, it's easy to get full terminal control.
(tgettent, tgoto, tput ...)
But if not all terminal capabilities are known by etc/termcap? How to get 
the missing information?

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