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Date:      Mon, 4 Aug 2008 23:11:30 +0900 (JST)
From:      Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
Cc:        randy@psg.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: termcap under single luser
Message-ID:  <20080804230919.H1629@plexi.pun-pun.prv>
In-Reply-To: <48970C5E.6000406@andric.com>
References:  <200808041330.m74DUsg9075683@lurza.secnetix.de> <48970C5E.6000406@andric.com>

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On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Dimitry Andric wrote:

> On 2008-08-04 15:30, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, I vote for moving termcap to /etc.
>
> Please note that /rescue/vi does NOT read termcap from /etc, at least
> not on RELENG_7.  (The ncurses library only seems to use $HOME/.termcap
> and /usr/share/misc/termcap, nothing else.)

A somewhat unconventional approach to this is to install 
/usr/share/misc/termcap into the root filesystem, normally underneath and 
hidden by the /usr mount, but visible again in the case where /usr is not 
mounted.

Not seriously suggesting this as an official fix :-)
-- 
Tod MCQuillin



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