Termcap
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It sits within the topics 1978 software, Computer data and Databases.
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- 1978-00-00
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Data model
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- Data values
- Hierarchy
- Storage model
- Environment variables
- Flat file
- Hashed database
- Limitations and extensions
- Obsolete features
- See also
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Termcap (terminal capability) is a legacy software library and database used on Unix-like computers that enables programs to use display computer terminals in a terminal-independent manner, which greatly simplifies the process of writing portable text mode applications. It was superseded by the terminfo database used by ncurses, tput, and other programs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Termcap” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.