Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pegasus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!pegasus!hansen From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen) Newsgroups: net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: Terminfo Message-ID: <1945@pegasus.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 20:38:48 EST Article-I.D.: pegasus.1945 Posted: Thu Dec 6 20:38:48 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 05:53:59 EST References: <5534@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2410@ucla-cs.ARPA>, <6193@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <54@mit-athena.ARPA> <55@mit-athena.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft NJ Lines: 13 < Terminfo users should be warned that one library supplied routine, < tgets, uses floating point and can definitely slow down emacs output. < The routine can easily be rewritten to use shift instructions. < < That function should have been tputs. I don't know what terminfo you're using, but the "official" version distributed as part of System Vr2 contains NO floats or doubles within it. If you're using some other public implementation of terminfo, (of which there is at least one,) then all bets are off. Tony Hansen pegasus!hansen