⚠️ Warning: This is a draft ⚠️

This means it might contain formatting issues, incorrect code, conceptual problems, or other severe issues.

If you want to help to improve and eventually enable this page, please fork RosettaGit's repository and open a merge request on GitHub.

{{library}} This category groups programs using the obsolete ''termcap'' library.

Early [[Unix]] systems used ''termcap'' to send escape sequences for [[terminal control]]. The ''termcap'' database described several types of terminals. The ''termcap'' library queried this database.

'''termcap is obsolete.''' Most systems switched to ''terminfo'' during 1980s or 1990s. All recent systems have ''terminfo'', except [[NetBSD]] (but NetBSD 6 will have terminfo). Some NetBSD users installed [[:Category:ncurses|''ncurses'']] to get ''terminfo''. Therefore, the only reason to use ''termcap'' is to remain compatible with ancient Unix systems, or with NetBSD systems without ''ncurses''.

== Manuals ==