[plug] Termcap

[Mike Holland]

On 22 Jan 2003, Anne Busby wrote:

> 
> I have been asked if there is a description of what the escape sequences
> are in the termcap files. I believe he is trying to put together a color
> termcap entry.

Anne,
  Is it possible to use terminfo instead?
I assume you've read the man page and comments in /etc/termcap 

  Is this what you want: ? ( From the SunOS man pages )

   Escape Sequence Codes
       A  number  of escape sequences are provided in the string-
       valued capabilities for easy encoding of characters there:

              \E     maps to ESC
              ^X     maps to CTRL-X for any appropriate character
                     X
              \n     maps to LINEFEED
              \r     maps to RETURN
              \t     maps to TAB
              \b     maps to BACKSPACE
              \f     maps to FORMFEED

       Finally, characters may be given  as  three  octal  digits
       after  a backslash (for example, \123), and the characters
       ^ (caret) and \ (backslash) may be  given  as  \^  and  \\
       respectively.

       If it is necessary to place a : in a capability it must be
       escaped in octal as \072.

       If it is necessary to place a NUL character  in  a  string
       capability it must be encoded as \200.  (The routines that
       deal with termcap use C strings and strip the high bits of
       the  output  very late, so that a \200 comes out as a \000
       would.)



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