From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 26 15:07:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA27508 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:07:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA27503 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:07:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA19424; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:06:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 15:06:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Francis Vidal cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: /etc/termcap In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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