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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 11:49:29 -0500
From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: another termcap library option
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-: I contacted the author of the termcap package available from < 
-: http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/49634.shtml >. He has agreed to let us use and 
-: make any changes required. It is full-featured (reads from a termcap file, 
-: etc.), but will require re-formatting and some tweaks.

I've been hacking the tinytcap library from Elvis 1.8 with the hope that
it could be added to djgpp.  It's at beta stage, but I did not want to
post any news about this (or approach Steve K for distribution permission)
until I had done a bit more with it.

However, I took a quick look at the above termcap package and it looks
promising.  AFAICT there is no support for padding, and the GNU extension
`tparam' is not implemented, but neither of these features is implemented
in the tinytcap library, either.  Since you already have the author's
permission to work with this lib, I think we should go with it.