termcap and terminfo: Help for Unix System Administrators

by Tim O'Reilly, Linda Mui, John Strang

Book Overview

While termcap and terminfo are no longer as important as they once were, due to the growth of the X terminal market and increased standardization among ASCII terminals, handling different terminal... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937175226
• ISBN13: 9780937175224
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Tresaure for unix geeks

This is a very usefull book for everybody who wants to understand how terminals in unix and linux work. Hardware terminals are not used widely now, but console and telnet/ssh are terminals too (it is called "virtual terminal"), and you need to know how to configure it for example for localization process. Although this book was written 20 years ago it is still actual becase BSD and System V terminal engine did not change alot. It helps you with reading pretty cryptic data from termcap and terminfo files (mans are not enought here:( ), creating new entries from scratch, configuring shells to work correctly and understanding how pseudo-graphics (like curses and ncurses) works.