From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 23 06:42:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA04005 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 06:42:44 -0700 Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA04000 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 06:42:42 -0700 Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA05973; Sat, 23 Sep 1995 09:43:24 -0400 From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199509231343.JAA05973@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: Terminal emulation weirdness ... To: ugen@latte.worldbank.org (Ugen J.S.Antsilevich) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 09:43:23 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Ugen J.S.Antsilevich" at Sep 23, 95 08:59:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1029 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > >Two ways -- I've done both on my HP systems: > > > >1 -- add the cons25 termcap and terminfo to the HP. Syscons looks like Ansi > > which is NOT an exact vt100. You can also use ansi as your hp termcap > > which may work ok. I've done both on HP-UX systems running 9.x. > Wrong..this is pretty strange but if i even copy the whole termcap from > FreeBSD to SUN and set terminal to be cons25, some programms > like ircII behave very oddly , like scrolling is not working (so all new strings > just overwrite the last one) etc.... > If you're talking SYSV machines -- you better do the TERMINFO as well. Some are linked against termcap and some terminfo. vi in SysV uses TERMINFO! Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |