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-: > Extended keyboard support in termios would be good so the Bash specific 
-: > tminit.c could go away.
-: 
-: Yes, that would be a welcome addition.  A possible implementation would 
-: be to add functions like tgetstr, tgetent, tgetflag, tgetnum, and make 
-: them return strings which the termios emulation would convert to the 
-: appropriate cursor motion and other commands.

The file `tinytcap.c' distributed with elvis 1.8 has some (if not
all) of these functions; I've been using them for some time to link
in the termcap functionality not otherwise available with djgpp.
In my estimation much of the missing termios support in djgpp could be
implemented by cannibalizing tinytcap.c.  If there is interest, I'll
post additional details for discussion.  Copyright issues permitting,
I'll even volunteer to be the cannibal.