- Note that termcap has nothing analogous to terminfo's <STRONG>sgr</STRONG> string. One
- consequence of this is that termcap applications assume me (terminfo
- <STRONG>sgr0</STRONG>) does not reset the alternate character set. This implementation
+ <B>o</B> <B>tputs("50")</B> in a terminfo system will put out a literal "50" rather
+ than busy-waiting for 50 milliseconds.
+
+ <B>o</B> However, if ncurses is configured to support termcap, it may also
+ have been configured to support the BSD-style padding.
+
+ In that case, <B>tputs</B> inspects strings passed to it, looking for dig-
+ its at the beginning of the string.
+
+ <B>tputs("50")</B> in a termcap system may wait for 50 milliseconds rather
+ than put out a literal "50"
+
+ Note that termcap has nothing analogous to terminfo's <B>sgr</B> string. One
+ consequence of this is that termcap applications assume <B>me</B> (terminfo
+ <B>sgr0</B>) does not reset the alternate character set. This implementation