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From: rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: termcap initialization and reset strings.
Message-ID: <27130@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 89 16:21:24 GMT
References: <27017@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <27017@watmath.waterloo.edu>, rbutterworth@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ray Butterworth) writes:
> Termcap has is= and rs= as initialization and reset strings.
> I've also seen i1=, i2=, i3=, and r1=, r2=, and r3= with
> other initializations in them.
> 
> i2= is the initialization string for the status line
> and is used by sysline(1) and some versions of tset(1).
> 
> What programs use the other five strings?
> (please mail me and I'll post a summary)

Here's the summary of all the response.  Thanks.

> From gwyn@BRL.MIL  Thu Jun  8 17:44:33 1989
> From: Doug Gwyn <gwyn@BRL.MIL>
> 
> i1, i2, i3, r1, r2, r3 are really terminfo inventions.
> Termcap rs corresponds roughly to terminfo r2 and is to i2.
> The 4.3BSD TERMCAP(5) manual entry describes this stuff in
> the "Tabs and Initialization" section.
> 
> Termcap-based programs that actually output i1, i3, r1, or
> r3 are, strictly speaking, violating the termcap spec.