Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ptsfa!ihnp4!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: How do you link the terminfo library on SysV.2? Message-ID: <4125@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 20:25:57 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4125 Posted: Wed Aug 12 20:25:57 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 08:24:57 EDT References: <2316@bnrmtv.UUCP> <449@ambush.UUCP> <1377@chinet.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 26 As quoted from <1377@chinet.UUCP> by randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess): +--------------- | In article <449@ambush.UUCP> kimcm@ambush.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen) writes: | >But also | >the disadvantage of not being able to add new attributes to the files. | | Sure you can. SysVr2 comes with the tic (terminfo compiler) that | allows you to replace any entry in the /usr/lib/terminfo/* that | you want. There are public domain termcap - to - terminfo +--------------- I think what he means is that you can't invent your own attributes and add them to the terminfo description. Say, something like: # new command 'ctr' moves to the center of the screen test-vt100|VT100 with a new attribute, ctr=\E[12;40H, tc=vt100, will fail -- you can't use the 'ctr' command. -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> ** Site "cwruecmp" is changing its name to "mandrill". Please re-address ** *** all mail to ncoast to pass through "mandrill" instead of "cwruecmp". ***