/etc/termcap

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Feb 22 09:28:27 PST 2006


"Sergey Matveychuk" <sem at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Why /etc/termcap is moved to /usr/share/misc?

Historically because it is fairly large (200 kB for the raw file and
1300 kB for the db file).  However, I don't think this matters much
any more; we might as well install the file in /etc and the symlink in
/usr/share/misc instead of the other way around.

DES
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