Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!axcess!allbery
From: allbery@axcess.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Using Emacs terminal mode w/SYSV
Message-ID: <126@axcess.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 88 16:41:23 GMT
References: <1821609@ncrcpx.UUCP>
Organization: aXcess Company, Mentor, Ohio
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In-reply-to: craig@ncrcpx.UUCP's message of 29 Dec 87 18:11:16 GMT

There's one small problem with creating terminfo entries on the fly:  you
can't stuff a terminfo description into an environment variable, you MUST
write it to a file in a terminfo-style hierarchical database (i.e.
$TERMINFO/e/emacs or similar).  Probably using "tic" is safest for this,
especially since it will create directories, etc... but, you need to create a
unique terminal entry for every terminal-mode window (termcap doesn't need
this, as it won't look in /etc/termcap if there's a valid termcap entry in
$TERMCAP).

It looks to me like it's more than slightly ugly and unlikely to function
properly under all circumstances.  And G*d knows how you'd handle a resized
window (of course, the same applies to 4.2BSD, so *someone* must have dealt
with it, but I doubt it'd be portable).
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