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This is the GNU termcap library -- a library of C functions that
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enable programs to send control strings to terminals in a way
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independent of the terminal type. The GNU termcap library does not
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place an arbitrary limit on the size of termcap entries, unlike most
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other termcap libraries.
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Most of this package is also distributed with GNU Emacs, but it is
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available in this separate distribution to make it easier to install
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as -ltermcap. However, use of termcap is discouraged. Termcap is
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being phased out in favor of the terminfo-based ncurses library, which
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contains an emulation of the termcap library routines in addition to
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an excellent curses implementation. ncurses is available from the
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usual GNU archive sites.
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See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
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Additionally:
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This package contains termcap.src, the latest official termcap data
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file. By default, it is not installed. The current version contains
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some entries that are more than 1023 bytes long, which is the largest
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value that is safe to use with the many historical applications that
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only allocate a 1024 byte termcap buffer (telnet, for example). If
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you make sure that all of your programs allocate buffers of at least
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2500 bytes, or let the termcap library do it by passing a NULL
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pointer, then it is safe to install the new termcap file, as described
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below.
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You can give configure two special options:
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--enable-install-termcap install the termcap data file
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--with-termcap=FILE use data file FILE instead of /etc/termcap
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Please report any bugs in this library to bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu.
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You can check which version of the library you have by using the RCS
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`ident' command on libtermcap.a.
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