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In list.freebsd-stable Chad R. Larson <chad@dcfinc.com> wrote:
 > Right (and what we did here) is to extract the "cons25" entry from your
 > /etc/termcap, move it to the Sun machine, and compile it into a terminfo
 > entry (using "captoinfo(1M)" and "tic(1M))".  Install that on all the
 > Suns.  You'll need admin priviledges to do that.

Not necessrily, you can use it as normal user, too.
Just set $TERMINFO to a directory in your home that
contains the compiled terminfo set.

Regards
   Oliver

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