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right, but the question was whether or not an understanding of terminfo would help general understanding behind the terminal and tty -- personally I think that
by serf 4y ago
right, but the question was whether or not an understanding of terminfo would help general understanding behind the terminal and tty -- personally I think that still stands, even if you don't insist on using terminfo practically.
- amelius 4y agoBut how do you think the information in that book can be turned into practical use for the programmer that spends time in the terminal but doesn't need to write applications that work in (possibly) ancient terminals?
- Beltalowda 4y agoIt's useful if you want to write interactive applications from scratch ("curses-like"). Beyond that ... probably not so much.
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- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoRead ECMA-48 and DEC VT documentation. That will cover the bulk of what you need to know to operate a TTY style terminal. Terminfo is basically for smoothing over differences with terminal behaviors that aren't commonly used anymore. It only tells you there's a difference in capability. You still have to implement code to handle them which will never be invoked by anyone but a retro enthusiast plugging in obscure 70's hardware.