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I've looked in a few places, and can't seem to find and answer to this
one...

I've just installed linux (BSD) and it uses /etc/termcap instead of
/etc/terminfo.

I learned from /etc/terminfo (Solaris, SysV) that 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 so, then I could get away with making changes to only one or two
definitions to recofigure my terminal capabilities, then point the
others to the changed ones.  (I'm hard-coding some decent colours into
my termcaps so that I don't have to live with boring white and grey on
black; the one I've modified works really well:)

Thanks.

Cheers
Tony
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