Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: HDB and async_main
Keywords: vt100, HDB, UA's Phone
Message-ID: <1351@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 15 Feb 91 22:13:35 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.192322.9824@cbnewsk.att.com> <1991Feb12.034118.17737@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
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In article <1991Feb12.034118.17737@ceilidh.beartrack.com> dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) writes:
>I would like use the UA's phone (no flames please) with HDB. I like HDB and
>use it all the time on my 3b2's and want to use it on my 7300. My question is
>"How do I use the async_main with it?" I need the vt100 emulation, because s4,
>7300,unix-pc isn't known outside AT&T or the loyal followers. 

It's easy enough to teach other UNIX machines about unixpcs simply by copying
the /etc/termcap entry for "unixpc" from the unixpc, putting it in your home
directory on the remote machine, and placing this in your profile:
	TERMCAP=$HOME/<termcapfile>
	TERM=unixpc
	export TERM TERMCAP
Better: TERMCAP=`cat $HOME/<termcapfile>` export TERMCAP.  Makes most
packages start off much faster.
Best: get the other system's System admin to install the entry
into their /etc/termcap, and somehow pull out the unixpc entry and
stuff it into the TERMCAP variable.

Though, of course, this ain't particularly useful on non-UNIX machines.

I gave up on phone long ago - partly because it doesn't work at all for
some reason ;-)
-- 
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