| 1 | This is the GNU termcap library -- a library of C functions that
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| 2 | enable programs to send control strings to terminals in a way
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| 3 | independent of the terminal type. The GNU termcap library does not
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| 4 | place an arbitrary limit on the size of termcap entries, unlike most
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| 5 | other termcap libraries.
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| 6 |
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| 7 | Most of this package is also distributed with GNU Emacs, but it is
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| 8 | available in this separate distribution to make it easier to install
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| 9 | as -ltermcap. However, use of termcap is discouraged. Termcap is
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| 10 | being phased out in favor of the terminfo-based ncurses library, which
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| 11 | contains an emulation of the termcap library routines in addition to
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| 12 | an excellent curses implementation. ncurses is available from the
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| 13 | usual GNU archive sites.
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| 14 |
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| 15 | See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
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| 16 | Additionally:
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| 17 |
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| 18 | This package contains termcap.src, the latest official termcap data
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| 19 | file. By default, it is not installed. The current version contains
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| 20 | some entries that are more than 1023 bytes long, which is the largest
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| 21 | value that is safe to use with the many historical applications that
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| 22 | only allocate a 1024 byte termcap buffer (telnet, for example). If
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| 23 | you make sure that all of your programs allocate buffers of at least
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| 24 | 2500 bytes, or let the termcap library do it by passing a NULL
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| 25 | pointer, then it is safe to install the new termcap file, as described
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| 26 | below.
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| 27 |
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| 28 | You can give configure two special options:
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| 29 | --enable-install-termcap install the termcap data file
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| 30 | --with-termcap=FILE use data file FILE instead of /etc/termcap
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| 31 |
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| 32 | Please report any bugs in this library to [email protected].
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| 33 | You can check which version of the library you have by using the RCS
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| 34 | `ident' command on libtermcap.a.
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