The termcap library is an API to the termcap database which can be
found in /etc/termcap/. The library functions allow
the following actions:
Get a description of the current terminal: tgetent(...).
Search the description for information:
tgetnum(...), tgetflag(...),
tgetstr(...).
Encode numeric parameters in a terminal specific form:
tparam(...), tgoto(...).
Compute and perform padding tputs(...).
Programs using the termcap library must include .h
and should be linked with:
gcc [flags] files -ltermcap
Termcap functions are terminal independent routines but only give
the programmer low level access to the terminal.
For a higher level package, curses or ncurses should be used.
