Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:20:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu Cc: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, fullermd@futuresouth.com, lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-ID: <199806212120.QAA26009@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <9806211530.ZM27643@beatrice.rutgers.edu> (easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu) References: <E0ynXXg-0005nr-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk> <9806202009.ZM28687@beatrice.rutgers.edu> <199806210151.UAA21537@detlev.UUCP> <9806211530.ZM27643@beatrice.rutgers.edu>
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>>>> You don't need root access, man termcap. >>> man termcap >>> No manual entry found for termcap. >>> You were saying? >> 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. I said nor implied you were telnetting to a FreeBSD machine. All I meant was that you can look at the man page on a FreeBSD machine (or on the web if for whatever reason you don't have man pages installed, or don't have FreeBSD), to see a feature that is in BSD-based termcap implementations since at least Net/2, and likely long before, whether or not they have said man page. We were suggesting a method that some of us have used when we have found ourselves in a similar spot. If it's not applicable to your situation, for whatever reason, then you may need to find a different solution. If you prefer, we will not make suggestions to you in the future if you haven't provided us with all the details we would need to tell if our solution would work. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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