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<STRONG>o</STRONG> Because the capability may have padding characters, the output of
<STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> should be passed to <STRONG>tputs</STRONG> rather than some other output func-
- tion such as <STRONG>printf</STRONG>.
+ tion such as <STRONG>printf(3)</STRONG>.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> While <STRONG>tgoto</STRONG> is assumed to be used for the two-parameter cursor po-
sitioning capability, termcap applications also use it for single-
was written several years before C was standardized. However, there
were two different termcap.h header files in the BSD sources:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> One was used internally by the <EM>jove</EM> editor in 2BSD through 4.4BSD.
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> One was used internally by the <STRONG>jove</STRONG> editor in 2BSD through 4.4BSD.
It defined global symbols for the termcap variables which it used.
<STRONG>o</STRONG> The other appeared in 4.4BSD Lite Release 2 (mid-1993) as part of
that instance, it was <EM>libedit</EM> which differed from BSD termcap.
A copy of GNU termcap 1.3 was bundled with <EM>bash</EM> in mid-1993, to support
- the <EM>readline</EM> library.
+ the <STRONG>readline(3)</STRONG> library.
A termcap.h file was provided in ncurses 1.8.1 (November 1993). That
- reflected influence by <EM>emacs</EM> (rather than <EM>jove</EM>) and GNU termcap:
+ reflected influence by <STRONG>emacs(1)</STRONG> (rather than <STRONG>jove(1)</STRONG>) and GNU termcap:
- <STRONG>o</STRONG> it provided declarations for a few global symbols used by <EM>emacs</EM>
+ <STRONG>o</STRONG> it provided declarations for a few global symbols used by <STRONG>emacs</STRONG>
<STRONG>o</STRONG> it provided function prototypes (using <STRONG>const</STRONG>).