From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 21 12:34:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19351 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from beatrice.rutgers.edu (beatrice.rutgers.edu [165.230.209.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19334 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu) Received: (from easmith@localhost) by beatrice.rutgers.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id PAA27644; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:30:43 -0400 (EDT) From: "Allen Smith" Message-Id: <9806211530.ZM27643@beatrice.rutgers.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:30:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: Joel Ray Holveck "Re: PCVT's death" (Jun 20, 8:51pm) References: <9806202009.ZM28687@beatrice.rutgers.edu> <199806210151.UAA21537@detlev.UUCP> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: joelh@gnu.org Subject: Re: PCVT's death Cc: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, fullermd@futuresouth.com, lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message