From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 27 22:09:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA22425 for current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.MCESTATE.COM (mail.MCESTATE.COM [207.211.200.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA22420 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA07648; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 22:08:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: David Nugent cc: John-Mark Gurney , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: termcap question In-Reply-To: <199704280503.PAA05634@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, David Nugent wrote: > > How does one add a termcap entry if it wasn't a supplied terminal type? > > Usually by adding it to ~/.termcap, unless you need it system-wide. Actually, it does need to be system-wide since it's for the users, I'm a FreeBSD cons25 user :-) > FWIW, I think a "linux" console entry should be added to the standard > FreeBSD termcap. I've needed it myself on occasion (but, fwiw, I don't > remember having to add the tc= references you apparently need). Hmmm, the linux and linux-nocolor were pulled from my friend's Linux machine and someone else said FreeBSD needs a vt220 termcap also. Cheers, Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]