Re: Is there a use= in termcap?

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From: Richard Shuford
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <3uj163$pi0@ngriffin.itc.gu.edu.au> T.Nugent@sct.gu.edu.au writes:
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> [with] /etc/terminfo [in] (Solaris, SysV) you can create a
> terminal definition by (re)defining one or two things then use another
> terminfo definition with the "use=" directive.  Very handy; I could
> easily customise lots of vt100-like terms.
>
> I can't seem to find the equivalent directive for termcap.  Is there
> such a thing?

If you had a copy of the O'Reilly & Associates book
"Termcap & Terminfo" by Strang, Mui, and O'Reilly, (3rd ed.,
ISBN 0-937175-22-6) you could look on page 64 and observe 
that the termcap equivalent is

    tc=

Surf to this URL to easily order the above tome:

    http://www.ora.com/gnn/bus/ora/item/term.html

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From: shuford@cs.utk.edu (Richard Shuford)
Subject: Re: Is there a use= in termcap?
Date: 1995/07/19
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