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-This is the GNU termcap library -- a library of C functions that
-enable programs to send control strings to terminals in a way
-independent of the terminal type. The GNU termcap library does not
-place an arbitrary limit on the size of termcap entries, unlike most
-other termcap libraries.
-
-Most of this package is also distributed with GNU Emacs, but it is
-available in this separate distribution to make it easier to install
-as -ltermcap. However, use of termcap is discouraged. Termcap is
-being phased out in favor of the terminfo-based ncurses library, which
-contains an emulation of the termcap library routines in addition to
-an excellent curses implementation. ncurses is available from the
-usual GNU archive sites.
-
-See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.
-Additionally:
-
-This package contains termcap.src, the latest official termcap data
-file. By default, it is not installed. The current version contains
-some entries that are more than 1023 bytes long, which is the largest
-value that is safe to use with the many historical applications that
-only allocate a 1024 byte termcap buffer (telnet, for example). If
-you make sure that all of your programs allocate buffers of at least
-2500 bytes, or let the termcap library do it by passing a NULL
-pointer, then it is safe to install the new termcap file, as described
-below.
-
-You can give configure two special options:
- --enable-install-termcap install the termcap data file
- --with-termcap=FILE use data file FILE instead of /etc/termcap
-
-Please report any bugs in this library to bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu.
-You can check which version of the library you have by using the RCS
-`ident' command on libtermcap.a.