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From: marka@syd.dms.csiro.au (Mark Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: TERMCAP in 4.1
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 2 May 90 13:00:52 GMT
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In article <7290@brazos.Rice.edu> ehrlich@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) writes:
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|In article <7166@brazos.Rice.edu> auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) writes:
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|> X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 134, message 17
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||Has anybody used non-default TERMCAP files in 4.1 ?  I am running 4.1 on a
||SPARC and vi is ignoring my TERMCAP file and using /usr/share/lib/termcap.
||The same file works fine on 4.0.3.
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|> "vi", in 4.0.3, is based on the 4.3BSD one, and uses "termcap".
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|> "vi", in 4.1, is (unless they changed things after I left) based on the
|> System V Release 3.1 one (it was, by far, the easiest way to make an 8-bit
|> clean version that lets you use international character sets like ISO
|> Latin #1), and uses "terminfo".
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|> Thus, it's ignoring not only your "termcap" file, but all "termcap" files,
|> including the one in "/usr/share/lib".  To quote from CURSES(3V) in 4.0.3
|> (probably unchanged for 4.1):
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|Gakkkkk!!  Does anyone know where one can find a TERMCAP -> TERMINFO
|converter?  Does 4.1 include one?
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|Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@cs.psu.edu>/Voice: +1 814 863 1142/FAX: +1 814 865 3176

This one should really be answered by RTFM. 4.0.X has captoinfo(8V). This
is just about standard on any terminfo based machine. I would expect it to
be there for 4.1 (I'm at home now and the 4.1 manuals are on the desk at
work).