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From: root@tndsyd.oz (the main man)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: Reading termcap database other than termcap
Message-ID: <533@tndsyd.oz>
Date: 28 Nov 90 16:09:25 GMT
References: <WAYNE.90Nov26180444@forchammer.cs.odu.edu>
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In article <WAYNE.90Nov26180444@forchammer.cs.odu.edu>, wayne@cs.odu.edu (C Wayne Huling) writes:
> 
>   I have written a small program to accept the name of a printer and search
> the printcap for the hostmachine.  I use the termcap routines supplied in the
> Unix PRM.  Unfortunatly it reads from a environment set variable.  My problem
> is if I set this variable "TERM" to be /etc/printcap and then run another
> program that needs "TERM" to be /etc/termcap then it will bomb.  Is there any
> way of setting the file to be read from internally?

You could do a:
	putenv("TERMCAP=/etc/printcap");

within your program before using terminfo or curses routines but
remember that if the program spawns a new process it will have this
in its environment.

By the way I assume you mean the TERMCAP environment variable and not
TERM since TERM specifies the terminal type and not the database location.


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