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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:19:05 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        <839273@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cygwin termcap entry
Message-ID:  <20101015201905.GA95390@sandvine.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikTR43izEtePgBKnvkT_-j-sEwPxfFPxcZMNupB@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <20101015174546.GA84021@sandvine.com> <AANLkTikTR43izEtePgBKnvkT_-j-sEwPxfFPxcZMNupB@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:09:11PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > I'd like to replace our termcap entry for cygwin with either one taken
> > from /etc/termcap on a Cygwin system, as in the patch below, or maybe
> > with the one from http://catb.org/esr/terminfo/termtypes.tc.gz.
> >
> > Any comments?
> 
> The problem is that it _does_ share capabilities with linux, so don't
> get rid of tc=linux.

The one from catb.org has tc=ansi.sys instead; just because there are a
common subset of capabilities doesn't necessarily imply that it should
use tc=, in my opinion.  Does it share capabilities with Linux because
it is based on some code in Linux?

-Ed



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