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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: wanted: UNIX or clone
Message-ID: <1991May4.125515.8831@pegasus.com>
Date: 4 May 91 12:55:15 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.155002.7791@unixland.uucp> <24@metran.UUCP> <832@tiamat.fsc.com>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>WP comes with it's own terminal description database, with it's own (often
>very different from the OS's default) names for terminal types.  For
>instance, WP uses "scocons" and "scoconscol" as the type names for the
>SCO console term emulation.

Why must the MSDOS boys always enlist morons from the wrong side of the
tracks to do their Unix ports for them?    :-(

I'll bet their termcrap database is some inscrutable binary format just
to keep mere mortals away.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com