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From: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need to modify terminfo database
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Date: 3 May 91 13:56:02 GMT
References: <1991May1.183824.26978@aucs.AcadiaU.ca>
Reply-To: jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter)
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In article <1991May1.183824.26978@aucs.AcadiaU.ca> peter@aucs.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
>I have a program that on startup complains that "khome" is an unknown
>key. I presume I have to add a definition for it in terminfo. What are
>the required changes to do this for a vt100? Thanks.

Programs shouldn't issue such complaints.  terminfo entries should only
have key definitions for keys that actually physically occur on the terminal.
If you add a khome definition to your vt100 entry, then software that uses
terminfo rationally may note the entry and ask users to hit the home key.
"The what?" they will ask.