-This is Info file /home/gd/gnu/termcap/termcap.info, produced by
-Makeinfo-1.52 from the input file /home/gd/gnu/termcap/termcap.texi.
+This is Info file ./termcap.info, produced by Makeinfo-1.55 from the
+input file ./termcap.texi.
This file documents the termcap library of the GNU system.
If you are using the GNU version of termcap, you can alternatively
ask `tgetent' to allocate enough space. Pass a null pointer for
-BUFFER, and `tgetent' itself allocates the storage using `malloc'. In
-this case the returned value on success is the address of the storage,
-cast to `int'. But normally there is no need for you to look at the
-address. Do not free the storage yourself.
+BUFFER, and `tgetent' itself allocates the storage using `malloc'.
+There is no way to get the address that was allocated, and you
+shouldn't try to free the storage.
With the Unix version of termcap, you must allocate space for the
description yourself and pass the address of the space as the argument
File: termcap.info, Node: tparam, Next: tgoto, Up: Using Parameters
`tparam'
---------
+........
The function `tparam' can encode display commands with any number of
parameters and allows you to specify the buffer space. It is the
File: termcap.info, Node: tgoto, Prev: tparam, Up: Using Parameters
`tgoto'
--------
+.......
The special case of cursor motion is handled by `tgoto'. There are
two reasons why you might choose to use `tgoto':