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From: slb@bnl44.UUCP (Sanford L. Barr @ Brookhaven National Labs. Long Island, N.Y.)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Setting TERM
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 16:10:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 16:10:57 1985
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> 
> 	Does SysV have anything along the lines of Berkeley's
> /etc/ttytype database for specifing terminal types? Or should
> we start re-inventing the wheel for SysV?
> 

	For some silly reason they left the ttytype database out of
sysV .. yet programs like tset and the such still look for it.  My
solution to the problem was just creating my own under ttytype format
and it works fine.

					Tell me how it turns out,
					San

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