From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 21 13:48:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA27190 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA27170 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA00869; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:45:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199806212045.WAA00869@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: PCVT's death In-Reply-To: <9806211530.ZM27643@beatrice.rutgers.edu> from Allen Smith at "Jun 21, 98 03:30:43 pm" To: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu (Allen Smith) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 22:45:35 +0200 (CEST) Cc: joelh@gnu.org, njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, fullermd@futuresouth.com, lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message