From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 27 23:59:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA27391 for current-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:59:35 -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 XAA27386 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:59:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by mail.MCESTATE.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA07996; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 23:59:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy To: John-Mark Gurney cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: termcap question In-Reply-To: <19970427195956.37887@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> 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 Sun, 27 Apr 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > another way is to go to the machine do: > echo $TERMCAP > somefile > transfer file to some machine... > either add it to /usr/share/misc/termcap, or do something like: > export TERMCAP=`cat somefile` > export TERM=`awk -F| '{print $1 }' somefile` > > and because TERM matches TERMCAP it won't reload TERMCAP with the entry > from /usr/share/misc/termcap... I just added in the references for the tc= lines and somehow after doing a cap_mkdb, it doesn't recognize the linux terminal type but it does recognize the terminal types that tc= refers to. 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 /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____]