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8.2.1 Introduction

The termcap library is an API to the termcap database which can be found in /etc/termcap/. The library functions allow the following actions:

  • Get a description of the current terminal: tgetent(...).
  • Search the description for information: tgetnum(...), tgetflag(...), tgetstr(...).
  • Encode numeric parameters in a terminal specific form: tparam(...), tgoto(...).
  • Compute and perform padding tputs(...).

Programs using the termcap library must include .h and should be linked with:

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Termcap functions are terminal independent routines but only give the programmer low level access to the terminal. For a higher level package, curses or ncurses should be used.


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