From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jan 18 11:57: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED5A837B416 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 11:57:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a089.otenet.gr [212.205.215.89]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g0IJuwS11671; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:56:58 +0200 (EET) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0IJutW75262; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:56:55 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:56:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: termcap versus terminfo Message-ID: <20020118195654.GA73428@hades.hell.gr> References: <20020117213043.GB41262@hades.hell.gr> <000701c19fe1$492e17a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000701c19fe1$492e17a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-01-17 21:30:48, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > This is also a good idea, we are talking maybe 11 lines of text. How's > the following sound: (in replacement of line # 39 about mailing changes > to berkeley, which isn't maintaining termcap anymore anyway) > > -------------cut here------------ > # > # To add a termcap entry under FreeBSD for a new terminal type, insert > # the entry in the appropriate location in /etc/termcap then issue this > # command: > # > # cap_mkdb -f /usr/share/misc/termcap /etc/termcap > # > # Terminfo source entries can be converted to termcap entries with the > # tic program that is part of the ncurses distribution, see the ports > # section. > # > ------------cut here------------- This looks nice (well, apart from double spaces after '#' in comments). Any src/ committers around to help us getting this committed to -CURRENT? -- Giorgos Keramidas . . . . . . . . . keramida@{ceid.upatras.gr,freebsd.org} FreeBSD Documentation Project . . . http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ FreeBSD: The power to serve . . . . http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message