Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:06:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /etc/termcap Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126150013.19241M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971126160753.987A-100000@cody.usls.edu>
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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Francis Vidal wrote: > 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. Copying it was a Bad Thing. You should have copied & pasted the entries you wanted into your existing termcap. Besides, the *real* termcap is in /usr/share/misc. The one in /etc/ is a fake, designed to keep poory written programs happy. > how do i go about this? Snip out the parts you want and drop them in ~/.termcap. This way you don't kill the system defaults. See termcap(3). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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