Acornell.2618 net.bugs.4bsd utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!harpo!vax135!cornell!pavel Thu Mar 4 18:29:18 1982 Termcap misfeatures 1) Comments which end with a blackslash are continued onto the next line. There is no point to this. It makes it considerably more difficult to comment out capabilities for testing, as does the following: 2) Comments in the middle of an entry are ignored. The reason for these foolishnesses lies in the way in which it is implemented, i.e. checking for the trailing backslash before checking for the initial "#". Unfortunately, since it doesn't use stdio.h and reads in 512-character chunks, a fix essentially means rewriting it substantially. It's not very big, but it's a pain. Has anyone found and fixed this in an easier way? Pavel Curtis decvax!cornell!pavel ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.