From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 3 11:52:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11031 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:52:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11024 for ; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 11:52:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA18928; Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:50:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:50:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: CyberPsychotic , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatible terminal settings Message-ID: <19981003135020.B18810@emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.3i In-Reply-To: ; from "CyberPsychotic" on Sat Oct 3 11:33:38 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 03), CyberPsychotic said: > Hello, > I am wondering if anyone faced the problem of incompatible terminals in > FreeBSD and other Unices. (even BSD clones, such as BSDi). Many Unices > lack such terminals in its termcap bases as cons25. so far the most > compatible terminal i found, is pc3. (sometimes It keeps things even > better than vt100) > > I wonder If there's possibility to share terms between those boxes. (say > if I have root on both). I tried just to extract term setting from > my linux console with infocmp and move to FreeBSD, but FreeBSD doesn't > quite understand sytaxis which is used by Linux... almost the same story > is with BSDi.. anyone could give hints how usually terminals are > transfered from one system to another, and, maybe, if there's a > possibility to automate this process... (say with script and scp or > whatever).. infocmp is a terminfo utliity; FreeBSD doesn't use terminfo, it uses termcap. All you should have to do is copy the appropriate entries from the Linux /etc/termcap file and put them in /usr/share/misc/termcap on your FreeBSD box. I've done this to "normalize" the termcap entries on SunOs, FreeBSD, Linux, OSF/1 and SCO, and haven't had a problem yet. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message