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From: bet@ecsvax.UUCP (Bennett E. Todd III)
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Subject: Re: Terminfo()--Ideas needed. System V
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Date: Tue, 20-May-86 18:29:02 EDT
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P.S. I made passing reference to the applicability of standard UNIX text
manipulation tools to readable textual databases, without giving a
specific example. I type

	% grep <terminal-type> /etc/termcap

to find out what to set TERM to pretty often. Just for instance.

-Bennett
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Bennett Todd -- Duke Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706-7756; (919) 684-3695
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