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8.2.3 Look at a Terminal Description

Every piece of information is called a capability, every capability is a two letter code, and every two letter code is followed by the value for the capability. Possible types are:

Each capability is associated with a single value type. (co is always numeric, hc is always a flag and st is always a string). There are three different types of values, so there are also three functions to interrogate them. char *name is the two letter code for the capability.



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Fri Mar 29 14:43:04 EST 1996