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From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: 3B2 and 'tset'
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 21:36:47 EDT
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> Back in the good(?) old days of System III and Version 7 there was a
> terminal initialization program called 'tset'.  Even though this is
> still referenced in the 3B2 documentation in TERMINFO(4) I can find neither
> hide nor hair of it.

Well, "tset" was a program written at Berkeley (I presume) by Eric Allman.
It didn't come with V7 or S3.  However, it has a number of #ifdef flags
which should make it possible to compile one that runs under V7 or S3,
assuming you have "termcap".  (You may have to do a little work to get it to
work.)  It uses the "tget..." calls in the "termcap" library which are
simulated by calls in the "terminfo" library, so it shouldn't be too much
work to get it running under S5R2 with "terminfo".  I don't know what the
distribution restrictions on the source to "tset" are, but if you're allowed
to have the source you might try bringing it up.  I suspect the reason it's
documented in TERMINFO(4) is that the curses/terminfo library was intended
to run under a lot of UNIX variants (the version that comes with S5R2 has
code for 4.1BSD, including catching SIGTSTP; this code assumes that signal
handlers are reset to SIG_DFL when the handler is entered, so it has to be
changed to work under 4.2BSD), one such variant being 4.xBSD.

	Guy Harris