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From: khera@macbeth.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Private termcap entries
Keywords: termcap private extra
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Date: 10 Dec 89 03:03:48 GMT
References: <340@charyb.COM>
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In article <340@charyb.COM> dan@charyb.UUCP (Dan Mick) writes:
>Is there a way to get extra, customized termcap entries without adding
>to the system-wide termcap file?  I've heard tell of putting a filename
>in the TERMCAP environment variable, but I've never been able to get it
>to work under SunOS.  Can someone describe how this is supposed to work,
>or point me at the right FM page?  (Haven't been able to find it in
>our online pages, at least...)

it works for me... at leat under SunOS 4.x and above.  you must also be
sure to set the TERMCAP variable as an absolute path (starting with "/").

i worked around it under SunOS 3.x by just assigning the entire termcap
entry to the TERMCAP variable.

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