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From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net>
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To: Allen Smith <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
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Subject: Re: PCVT's death
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On Sun, 21 Jun 1998, Allen Smith wrote:

> On Jun 20,  8:51pm, Joel Ray Holveck (possibly) wrote:
> > 
> > >> You don't need root access, man termcap.
> > > man termcap
> > > No manual entry found for termcap.
> > > You were saying?
> > 
> > termcap(3) is fine 2.2.6 and -current.  Try man tgetent, or
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=termcap if you prefer.
> > 
> > (The bottom line is that ~/.termcap is searched.)
> 
> Umm... what makes you think I'm needing to telnet to a _FreeBSD_
> system? The above was on an IRIX machine. As well as UNIXen such as
> IRIX that don't have termcap (using terminfo or similar), there are
> also VAXes, etcetera.

man terminfo
:p

zippy:~#ls -lad ~/.terminfo
drwx------  64 root  wheel  1024 24 Mar 20:39 /usr/home/root/.terminfo/
zippy:~#date
Lun 22 Iun 1998 14:07:04 PDT
???

- alex

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