Re: terminfo, termcap, which one and how?

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From: Ross Ridge
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 15:46

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bernd@cc.uow.edu.au (Bernd Wechner) writes:
>But anyway, I can write a local terminfo entry and instal it privately 
>(with the TERMINFO environment variable) which is all good and well for
>a few screen programs (vi being one of them). But most things evidently
>use the termcap database in /etc. This I can't write to, nor can I find
>a way to point to a private termcap entry of my own. 

Setting the TERMCAP environment variable should what you want, ie:

	TERMCAP=$HOME/termcap
	export TERMCAP

or in csh:

	setenv TERMCAP ~/termcap

I don't know of any termcap libraries that don't support this.  

							Ross Ridge

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Subject: Re: terminfo, termcap, which one and how?
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