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Date:      Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:30:43 -0400
From:      "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
To:        joelh@gnu.org
Cc:        njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, fullermd@futuresouth.com, lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCVT's death
Message-ID:  <9806211530.ZM27643@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>        "Re: PCVT's death" (Jun 20,  8:51pm)
References:  <E0ynXXg-0005nr-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk>  <9806202009.ZM28687@beatrice.rutgers.edu>  <199806210151.UAA21537@detlev.UUCP>

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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.

	-Allen

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Allen Smith				easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu
	

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