The ncurses package provides a huge amount of functionality, but
occasionally only a small part of that is needed.  For example,
the terminal attributes (from the TERMINFO database) are useful
without enabling the entire ncurses package.

These two programs provide first (termidemo1.c) just about the
simplest access possible, and second (termidemo2.c) a much more
complex do-almost-anything demonstration of taking it to a limit
that approaches making it better to just use the whole ncurses
package.

Note that the results obtained depend very much on exactly how
the TERM environment variable is defined, and on what the
TERMINFO database says a particular terminal can do.  The
distribution "xterm" definition, for example, does not provide
color, while the "xterm-color" definition does.

All of these are interesting variations to try:

    > TERM=xterm ./termidemo2
    > TERM=xterm-color ./termidemo2
    > TERM=vt100 ./termidemo2
    > TERM=linux ./termidemo2

The first two are for use under X, and the last two for
a virtual terminal.

$Id: README,v 1.1.0.0 2003/11/05 19:39:36 floyd Exp floyd $