esr and SCO - Problem??

[andycrofts]

Hi.
Just been looking through termcap to fix an annoying display problem.
We've all got a copy, certainly if you have RH9.

Wonder if SCO has picked up on the comments in lines 242 onwards....

-Hmmmm.....

[bwkaz]

Actually, termcap was deprecated in favor of terminfo (/usr/share/terminfo), which was then deprecated in favor of ncurses (except for small programs that don't need the full capabilities of ncurses -- ncurses installs a terminfo database for them, though).

So no, some of us don't have a termcap database file.

;)

(Mind filling me in on what it says?)

[andycrofts]

Sure thing! Here's the lowdown:-

# COPYRIGHTS AND OTHER DELUSIONS
#
# The BSD ancestor of this file had a standard Regents of the University of
# California copyright with dates from 1980 to 1993.
#
# Some information has been merged in from a terminfo file SCO distributes.
# It has an obnoxious boilerplate copyright which I'm ignoring because they
# took so much of the content from the ancestral BSD versions of this file
# and didn't attribute it, thereby violating the BSD Regents' copyright.
#
# Not that anyone should care. However many valid functions copyrights may
# serve, putting one on a termcap/terminfo file with hundreds of anonymous
# contributors makes about as much sense as copyrighting a wall-full of
# graffiti -- it's legally dubious, ethically bogus, and patently ridiculous.
#
# This file deliberately has no copyright. It belongs to no one and everyone.
# If you claim you own it, you will merely succeed in looking like a fool.
# Use it as you like. Use it at your own risk. Copy and redistribute freely.
# There are no guarantees anywhere. Svaha!
#

[bwkaz]

:D

Cool...