8.2.1 Introduction 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: 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.

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