[screen-devel] [bug #54989] incorrect use of tparm

[Thomas Dickey]

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #54989 (project screen):

ncurses 6.1 (like ncurses 6.0) can be compiled to match the feature-set of
older releases.  Packagers tend to match the older releases...

You have to use the "-x" option of infocmp to see extended capabilities,
e.g.,

infocmp -x xterm-direct |grep RGB

"RGB" is documented in the manual page:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/user_caps.5.html

If compiled to suppress the 32-bit terminfo feature, tic/infocmp will use the
signed 16-bit limit.  I could digress a little about the slow rate of
adoption, but proposed correcting the tparm call because that works for you
now.

The 256-color escapes have been available for quite a while.  If you're using
Debian (or Ubuntu), you probably omitted the ncurses-term package.

As far as assuming that various features are supported: if the terminal
developers don't document what their program does, you can't assume anything
about it :-)

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