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From: skum@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
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Subject: Re: What is a termcap entry?
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Date: 10 Dec 90 05:52:14 GMT
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In article <00940C73.E7A06D00@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU> sirotto@oak.circa.ufl.edu (Mike Cerrato) writes:
[Basically correct definition of TermCap]
>
>If that was right, does that mean that if I had the termcap for a TEK 4014, I
>would be able to use one?  Does the fact that I am on a VAX running VMS change
>things?
>
Yes, it sure does...
Termcap files are a unix thing...under VMS, there is a similar file
(forgot the name, but you can read about it in the SMG$ section of
the VMS Library/system services manual) but I haven't heard of
anybody successfully getting things like EDT and the like to work
with their new terminal definitions...oh, I think the file is
called TERMDEF.somthing_or_other and should be located in a
directory like sys$system, or sys$library.

>Michael E. Cerrato	Internet: SIROTTO%maple.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu
>University of Florida


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