From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 13 9:12:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.worldy.com (ns1.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBAC37B62D for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:12:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tracker@worldy.com) Received: from ppp133.WORLDY.COM (ppp133.WORLDY.COM [209.5.30.184]) by home.worldy.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA17161 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:12:10 -0400 Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:11:15 +0000 (GMT) From: David Banning X-Sender: tracker@tracker To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: where is TERMCAP set? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The first 6 months that I had my system up and running a setting for TERM or TERMCAP in .profile - "echo $TERM" and "echo $TERMCAP" would produce nothing - yet the system - vi and such would work fine. in X "echo $TERMCAP" would produce the entire listing from termcap file. NOW I have to set TERMCAP to /etc/termcap for it to work. My question is: How does the system know what TERM and TERMCAP to use if it is not set in .profile? Why is the system not setting these variable auto-like it did in the past? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message