8.2.1 Introduction Next: 8.2.2 Find a Terminal Up: 8.2 The Termcap Library Previous: 8.2 The Termcap Library8.2.1 IntroductionThe 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.Converted on:Fri Mar 29 14:43:04 EST 1996s