Re: tlug: jpine 4.05?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Chris Sekiya wrote:

> (although questionably on-topic for tlug, I decided to do a public reply
> in case anyone else needs the information someday)
> 
> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Scott Stone wrote:
> 
> > > >         libtermcap.so.2 => /lib/libtermcap.so.2 (0x40004000)
> > 
> > What's wrong with the above?
> 
> ncurses replaces termcap/curses.  Across the board.  Termcap is obsolete.
> 
> If one has ncurses installed on the box, all applications should be linked
> against it.  Termcap/curses should be around only for legacy binary
> compatibility, _never_ linked against.  Once termcap/curses is eradicated,
> then one can safely delete /etc/termcap since ncurses uses
> /usr/share/terminfo.

well, I guess this proves that I don't Know Everything :)
It's on my 'to-do' list now... I'll post all updates as updates to 3.0 by
FTP.  Fortunately nothing seems to be actively broken right now, so it's
just a procedural change to relink some apps.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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