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From: jpn@genrad.com (John P. Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Problem defining vt300 on a Sun4
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Date: 25 Jan 91 20:56:24 GMT
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>                   On a Sun 3/Unix 4.2 and a BSD 4.3 machine I set my
>TERMCAP environment variable to /home1/mking/mytermcap which contains
>the termcap entry for a vt300 terminal and vi works properly.
>However, on a Sun 4 release 4.1 I get the following message when I
>run vi:
>
>vt300: Unknown terminal type

Right.  The SunOS 4.1 "vi" is the system V "vi":  It uses the
"terminfo" database, not termcap.  I found this to be incredibly
annoying also, the first time I discovered it.

>At this point vi is basically useless.  I can define the terminal as
>a vt200 or vt100 to get "vi" to work.  However, I would like to find a
>better solution.

Apparently, you can set the environment variable TERMINFO to point to
a directory containing compiler terminfo database files, similarly to
the way the TERMCAP environment variable works.  You can't put the
entire TERMINFO entry into an environment variable like TERMCAP.

I hope this helps...

     john nelson

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