Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 13:50:20 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: CyberPsychotic <fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatible terminal settings Message-ID: <19981003135020.B18810@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.4.02.9810031111200.425-100000@freenet.kg>; from "CyberPsychotic" on Sat Oct 3 11:33:38 GMT 1998 References: <Pine.BSD.4.02.9810031111200.425-100000@freenet.kg>
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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
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