#: 18130 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    19-May-93  22:46:08
Sb: #18123-#Printcap info needed
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Pete Lyall 76703,4230 (X)

I'd be very leary of defining my own termcap defs. From the System V stuff
uploaded here, there doesn't appear to be too much left undefined.

Of course, the biggest problem with termcap is that so many entries are just
plain wrong. Do you know if any of the unix-types ever wrote a termcap
maintenance program. It be nice to have something which could do syntax
checking as well as having routines to test specific caps. In marketing Ved
I've found that 99% of the time when someone calls with a problem, it is a
termcap entry problem. It's so that I'm getting real good at recognizing these.
At least I don't waste hours anymore looking at my code...

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