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Article #1347sysline(1) does not use environment TERMCAP
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 05:45
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 05:45
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DESCRIPTION: It appears on several BSD and ULTRIX systems that sysline(1) does not check that for an environment TERMCAP before searching /etc/termcap. There is no apparent way to specify a different termcap file to sysline. This means that individual users cannot use sysline with individually installed terminal descriptions. REPEAT-BY: Find a terminal whose /etc/termcap description does not have ds, es, or fs. Set your TERMCAP variable to be the standard termcap for that terminal, plus any ds, es, and fs strings. Observe that sysline does not recognize the environment TERMCAP. Similarly, by changing TERM, TERMCAP, and /etc/termcap, convince yourself that sysline searches for TERM within /etc/termcap, and only works if the /etc/termcap description has the appropriate strings. FIX: Not having sysline source, I have so far been content to write my own code to use the terminal status line. I suspect that termcap is used in sysline without using the termcap(3) routines. ---Dan Bernstein, bernsten@phoenix.princeton.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!bernsten From: bernsten@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: sysline(1) does not use environment TERMCAP Keywords: sysline, TERM, TERMCAP Message-ID: <6497@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 19 Feb 89 05:45:47 GMT Reply-To: bernsten@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Dan Bernstein) Distribution: usa Organization: Princeton U. Undergrad Math Majors, last time I checked Lines: 22