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From: cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[rs])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Curses & Terminfo
Message-ID: <10078@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Date: 15 Feb 88 16:46:56 GMT
References: <11664@brl-adm.ARPA> <1686@rtech.UUCP> <465@minya.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Lines: 17
Summary: tic

In article <465@minya.UUCP>, jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
> 
> Presumably you must edit some ascii source and then run some
> command to build the binary file, but I've been unable to find
> any description of how to do it in the manuals.  This terminal
> is sorta like a vt100, except it has more lines.  I'm using a
> vt100 entry, which works, but there are those unused lines that
> I'd like to use.  

The command you're talking about is called tic(1M), or
terminfo compiler.  Also take a look at captoinfo(1M) which converts
from termcap entries to terminfo entries, and at infocmp(1M), which prints
out the ascii version of the compiled terminfo entries.

	Chris Calabrese
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	ulysses!cjc