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> The entries in /etc/termcap contain tons of backslashes which are mis-
> interpreted by scheme. Is there any possibility at all. In this way writing
> tgetent,tgetstr and tputs (from libtermcap) in Guile doesn't have a snowball's
> chance in hell to work. Is there a way to get around the backslash-dilemma
> for handling the termcaps?
>
One of us is missing the point. The (read) procedure in Scheme reads Scheme
objects from a file, but nobody ever said /etc/termcap was a file of Scheme
objects. If you want to read characters from a file, use (read-char).
This procedure returns characters just as they are, without any escape
sequences. Guile also has (read-line) if you want the whole line.
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