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Re:Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer by Sean1708 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:20PM (#18866557)
Aren't termcap and terminfo linux (or maybe unix) only?
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Re:Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer by msla on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @05:32PM (#18869686)
Both of them long predate Linux. They're definitely Unix-flavored, but so's the Berkeley sockets library, and that's available everywhere, too. Ultimately, they're a library which is packaged with a database, and nothing about them is very system-specific except the terminal information in the database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminfo

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Re:Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer by ksherlock on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @06:11PM (#18869968)
termcap was written by Bill Joy in 1978. terminfo dates back to 1982.
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Re:Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer by feanaro on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:22PM (#18869035)
termcap is supported on FreeBSD, at the least.
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