Is there a use= in termcap?

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Author: Tony Nugent
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 00:00

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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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Re: Is there a use= in termcap?

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Author: 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:
>
> [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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