Re: lynx-dev curses working but new problem with highlighted links

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 address@hidden wrote:

> In a recent note, Doug Kaufman said:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:00:50 -0700 (PDT)
> > 
> > Set TERMINFO in the environment to point to the directory that holds
> > the database. Similarly, with termcap, you should be able to point the
> > environment variable TERMCAP to the file which holds the description.
> > Note that one points to the directory, the other to the file.
> > 
> On SunOS 4.x.x, I've been accustomed to having TERMCAP contain the
> actual description, not a pointer to a file.  That's what tset(1)
> returns on that system.

It can do either: if $TERMCAP matches a filename, that's read and searched
for whatever $TERM is.  Otherwise $TERMCAP is literally the data to be
used (ignoring $TERM, I believe).

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