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I have not heard any definite indications from the FSF about the
support of terminfo vs. termcap, but I have some opinions about
this, so here goes.

It should be only necessary to maintain the description of a file
in one place.  Ideally this would be in the terminfo syntax, since
it has a greater expressive style.  A program could be written to
convert a terminfo database into a termcap file.

It would be even better if the system calls that make use of
termcap information would access the terminfo database directly.
That would be more difficult to program at first, but would
simplify everyones life in the long run.  

If the TERMCAP environment variable is used, that must be supported
in its present syntax, because some emulators use this as their only
way of communicating terminal capabilities to applications.  -David-

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