Re: Cursing the tput utility - the penguin strikes again

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey_at_his.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:09:53 UTC
On Thu, Feb 23, 2023 at 04:45:21PM +0000, Frank Leonhardt wrote:
> I'm looking at another documentation snafu here.
...
> Well use the tcap utility on non-BSD platforms and it suddenly doesn't work.
> It turns out that the penguinistas thought using the "Cap Name" instead of
> the "TCap Code" was a good idea. Some of the codes are the same, some are
> not. In fact most are not.

You've got that backwards.  Here's a pointer to the manual page:

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tput.1.html#h2-HISTORY

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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