termcap & terminfo (O'Reilly Nutshell) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Linda Mui, Tim O'reilly, John Strang
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Pages: 261
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ISBN: 0937175226
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.43
UPC: 636920175223
EAN: 9780937175224
ASIN: 0937175226
Publication Date: April 1988
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While termcap and terminfo are no longer as important as they once were, due to the growth of the X terminal market and increased standardization among ASCII terminals, handling different terminal types can still be a headache for system administrators. The termcap and terminfo databases are UNIX's solution to the difficulty of supporting many terminals without writing special drivers for each terminal. Termcap (BSD) and terminfo (System V) describe the features of hundreds of terminals, together with a library of routines that allow programs to use those capabilities. This book documents hundreds of capabilities and syntax for termcap and terminfo, writing and debugging terminal descriptions, and terminal initialization.
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Tresaure for unix geeks October 2, 2008
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This is a very usefull book for everybody who wants to understand how terminals in unix and linux work. Hardware terminals are not used widely now, but console and telnet/ssh are terminals too (it is called "virtual terminal"), and you need to know how to configure it for example for localization process. Although this book was written 20 years ago it is still actual becase BSD and System V terminal engine did not change alot. It helps you with reading pretty cryptic data from termcap and terminfo files (mans are not enought here:( ), creating new entries from scratch, configuring shells to work correctly and understanding how pseudo-graphics (like curses and ncurses) works.
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