Thomas Dickey wrote:
It's clear if one realizes that a terminal description is a "terminfo
source". But confusion on this detail has been longstanding, and not
limited to infotocap. I've also seen people attempting to run tic on
files in the terminal database.
Thanks guys, I now found what I searched for in the ncurses debian
source package (xterm.ti, the terminfo source for xterm).
Since the confusion is very specific, it might be useful to add a check
to the source-reader which immediately errors out if the "source" begins
with the magic code corresponding to compiled entries.
This is a good idea to avoid future bug reports like this one. And one
more line in the man page to explain this will be even better.
Regards,
Alain
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