Acornell.2618
net.bugs.4bsd
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!vax135!cornell!pavel
Thu Mar 4 18:29:18 1982
Termcap misfeatures
1) Comments which end with a blackslash are continued onto the
next line. There is no point to this. It makes it considerably
more difficult to comment out capabilities for testing, as does
the following:
2) Comments in the middle of an entry are ignored.
The reason for these foolishnesses lies in the way in which it is implemented,
i.e. checking for the trailing backslash before checking for the initial "#".
Unfortunately, since it doesn't use stdio.h and reads in 512-character
chunks, a fix essentially means rewriting it substantially. It's not very
big, but it's a pain. Has anyone found and fixed this in an easier way?
Pavel Curtis
decvax!cornell!pavel
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