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Date:      Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:45:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith)
Cc:        joelh@gnu.org, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, fullermd@futuresouth.com, lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCVT's death
Message-ID:  <199806212045.WAA00869@sos.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <9806211530.ZM27643@beatrice.rutgers.edu> from Allen Smith at "Jun 21, 98 03:30:43 pm"

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In reply to Allen Smith who wrote:
> On Jun 20,  8:51pm, Joel Ray Holveck (possibly) wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

On Irix, Solaris, SVR4 you set your TERMCAP/TERMINFO evironment
var to your own termcap/terminfo file containing a cons25 or
similar, if the system doesn't have an AT386 or semilar type.

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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