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From: hhchou@nell.cs.umd.edu (Hui-Hsien Chou)
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Subject: Re: Looking for termcap entry for Zterm
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Date: 29 Apr 91 19:06:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: erf@progress.COM's message of 29 Apr 91 16:19:28 GMT

In article <1991Apr29.161928.22100@progress.com> erf@progress.COM (Eric Feigenson) writes:

   I need a termcap (terminfo would do, as well) for Unix that
   describes Zterm.  I know vt100 emulation "works" but the vt100 (and
   ansi) termcap entries on the systems I use force the window size to
   24 lines, which is a bummer if my window size has 58 lines (which
   it usually does).  Is there a way to ask Zterm from Unix how many
   lines is on the window?  If so, does anyone have a termcap/
   terminfo entry that does this?

   Thanks in advance!  Please e-mail replies.

   -EricF

Sorry I post my reply to the net since I think this is a general
problem.

I don't know whether you can let Unix ask Zterm how many lines it has.
(Probably you can't do this, I guess.) But if your Zterm lines are
fixed (probably so, you won't change screen height very often.), say
58 lines, then there are some very easy ways to cure this problem.

Method 1.
	Just let your TERM be vt100, but put the following command in
your startup script (.cshrc, if you use csh.)
 
	stty rows 58

Method 2.
	Or let your TERM be aabbcc (or whatever you name.), and
TERMCAP be ~/.termcap, and put the file .termcap in your home directory.
The content of .termcap is listed at the end. Doing this way will have
the benefit of quicker startup (because you don't have to call the
command stty.) and flexibility of modifications (you may change your
column width to 132 in addition to lines be 58).

	Of course if you are the system administrator, you can just
modify your system termcap file under /etc accordingly. (I mean if you
OWN the computer, :-)

Appendix: Content of .termcap

d0|aabbcc|mac-am|zterm:\
	:am:\
	:al=\E[L:\
	:bl=^G:\
	:bs:\
	:cd=50\E[J:\
	:ce=3\E[K:\
	:cl=50\E[;H\E[2J:\
	:cm=10\E[%i%d;%dH:\
	:co#80:\
	:cr=^M:\
	:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:\
	:dc=\E[P:\
	:dl=\E[M:\
	:do=^J:\
	:ei=\E[4l:\
	:ho=\E[H:\
	:im=\E[4h:\
	:is=\E[1;24r\E[24;1H:\
	:k1=\EOP:\
	:k2=\EOQ:\
	:k3=\EOR:\
	:k4=\EOS:\
	:kb=^H:\
	:kd=\EOB:\
	:ke=\E[?1l\E>:\
	:kl=\EOD:\
	:kr=\EOC:\
	:ks=\E[?1h\E=:\
	:ku=\EOA:\
	:le=^H:\
	:li#58:\
	:md=2\E[1m:\
	:mr=2\E[7m:\
	:mb=2\E[5m:\
	:me=2\E[m:\
	:mi:\
	:nd=\E[C:\
	:nl=^J:\
	:pt:\
	:rc=\E8:\
	:rf=/usr/lib/tabset/vt100:\
	:rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h:\
	:sc=\E7:\
	:se=\E[m:\
	:so=\E[7m:\
	:sr=\EM:\
	:ta=^I:\
	:ue=\E[m:\
	:up=\E[A:\
	:us=\E[4m:\
	:vt#3:\
	:xn: