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<H2><A NAME="SECTION00921000000000000000">8.2.1 Introduction</A></H2>
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The termcap library is an API to the termcap database which can be
found in <I>/etc/termcap/</I>. The library functions allow
the following actions:
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<UL><LI> Get a description of the current terminal: <B>tgetent(...)</B>.<LI> Search the description for information:
        <B>tgetnum(...)</B>, <B>tgetflag(...)</B>, 
        <B>tgetstr(...)</B>.<LI> Encode numeric parameters in a terminal specific form:
        <B>tparam(...)</B>, <B>tgoto(...)</B>.<LI> Compute and perform padding <B>tputs(...)</B>.
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Programs using the termcap library must include .h
and should be linked with:
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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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