From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 28 15:24:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02004 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:24:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01997 for ; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:24:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-131.laker.net [208.0.233.31]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id SAA10944; Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:23:09 -0500 Message-Id: <199810282323.SAA10944@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "John C. Place" Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 18:21:59 -0500 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: QNX terminal emulation Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 17:35:33 -0500, John C. Place wrote: >On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 04:34:35PM -0500, Steve Friedrich wrote: >> I suspect that you might not find someone with a ready-made solution. >> If that's the case, you might want to get a copy of "termcap & >> terminfo" from O'Reilly. This book should give you enough knowledge to >> *port* the termcap entry you have. I'd use the man page and verify >> each piece of the termcap. >> >Thanks for the reply > >I was hoping I could use the term soutce file that come with qnx or Linux.... >I dont get it why would you need to "port" it. I thought the whole thing >behind termcap was to give it a common "language" ?? Yea, but the caveat is: In theory, theory is the same as practice. But in practice, it's not! (or words to that effect) It may work as is, but I wouldn't bet MONEY on it ;o) Have you ever noticed how different C or Fortran compilers are on different platforms, even when they claim to be *ansi* standard?? Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message