Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 10:55:29 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: jeearr AT dns1 DOT cpcc DOT cc DOT nc DOT us
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: termcap

   From: jeearr AT dns1 DOT cpcc DOT cc DOT nc DOT us (Jeearr the Demon of Chaos)

   Anyone know if there is a termcap for DOS? and if so where?

I seem to recall there is no good one (I assume you mean "library",
not a definition for "ibmpc"), and I don't have a pointer to abad one.
But you could try simtel msdos/sysutil directory.  Or Archie.

   (btw thanks to all who responded about my earlier ld problem..it's
   working fine now with using gcc to link it...although I am curious
   as to why everyone is discouraging the use of it because it seems
   to me that it would make things slower by having gcc call ld,
   rather than calling ld directly)

No human being will notice the difference on a single link.  If you're
using a disk cache, the difference is not noticeable for lots and
lots of them.  Not that anyone ever does more than one link in a build
with current (non-incremental) technology.  It's a non-issue.
    With that handle, you were either doing drugs in the mid 70's or
you were barely born yet, so you don't remember the 8080 (Altair,
anyone?).  These ain't those days any more:  Having programs call
programs is not noticeably slower than integrating the programs into
one.  Or calling the subordinate programs directly (from a human's
standpoint).  Have you noticed the popularity of shell and even
batchfile programming?
    The bottom line is that 1 manual reference = 3000-30000 disk
references.  1 mailing list reference = 3000000 disk references.
Anything that keeps programmers from having to remember where crt0.o
is kept is a big win.

    --Steve