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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
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Subject: Re: looking for termcap entry for hft-c
Summary: ansi, hft, vt100...
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Date: 22 Nov 89 13:53:36 GMT
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In article <367@umrisca.usenet.umr.edu> ff@mcs213k.UUCP (Bruce McMillin) wrote:
>We just recently acquired AIX for PS/2.  The AIX shell within X windows
>insists on making itself into a "hft-c".  The rest of our world here is
>AOS.  Question:  has anybody out there made a termcap entry for a 
>hft-c that they could send me?  All that comes with AIX is a terminfo
>entry.

Make a termcap entry that looks like this:

hft|hft-c:tc=ansi:

`ansi' works tolerably well for AIX-PS/2 hft's; I use it every day.

Xterm on AIX/RT provides a VT100 mode which might also be useful if 
your systems have it too.

There's more work involved if your AOS machines have 6153 monitors with
no X support, and you want to use them to edit on the PS/2.  You'll have to
find a machine that has captoinfo and compile a terminfo entry based on
the termcap entry from the AOS machine.  System 5 Release 3 machines
have captoinfo.  There's also a public domain version that's not quite
complete, but which produced a usable terminfo entry when I used it for
exactly this application.  I think it's in the comp.sources.unix
archives.