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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:23:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vincent Poy <vince@mail.MCESTATE.COM>
To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
cc: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: termcap question 
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On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, David Nugent wrote:

> > 	Hmmm, the linux and linux-nocolor were pulled from my friend's
> > Linux machine and someone else said FreeBSD needs a vt220 termcap also.
> 
> No, FreeBSD's vt220 works fine. I use it quite often.

	Comeone was complaining about it but I found it in the vt200
entry.

> Of course, it may depend on which emulator you're using. :-)
> Some of them are pretty awful. ckermit's vt220 is about the
> best I've ever seen though.
> 
> The problem with pulling termcap entries from other operating
> systems, though, is the question of compatiblity. It'd be
> nice if all termcaps were equal, but that doesn't agree with
> my experience. As usual, YYMV.

	Yep, that's true.  One thing I can't figure out is that the linux
termcap entry returns as unknown when the tc= lines it references to are
there and those entries work while the linux one doesn't.  Weird.


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