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From: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu>
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Subject: /etc/termcap
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hello!

i wanted to use the /etc/termcap of my Linux box instead of the default of
FreeBSD but when i copied it, the sytem complains that it doesn't know the
terminal type 'linux' even though the new /etc/termcap contains the
definition.

how do i go about this?