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From: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Request for help concerning termcap entry
Message-ID: <Sep.29.23.40.34.1988.24168@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 30 Sep 88 03:40:35 GMT
References: <1448@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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To: ast@cs.vu.nl

Here is the termcap I use for the minix console with Gnu Emacs
(running on a Sun with my PC acting as a terminal emulator --
unfortunately Gnu Emacs doesn't work on Minix directly).  I've also
tried this termcap directly on the Minix system with elle.  It works,
but as far as I can tell, elle isn't taking advantage of insert/delete
line.  This doesn't matter very much, since the console display is so
fast that re-writing the screen is practical.  Note that my color
termcap assumes you are using black text on a white screen.  So I'm
also supplying you with 2 lines to put in .profile for a color monitor
to set that up.  The monochrome termcap will work either way (black on
white or white on black).  With my color termcap and .profile, here's
what you get:

  normal text screen is black on white
  prompt is "minix>" black on cyan
  elle mode line is black on green

/etc/termcap:

Warning: this termcap assumes you have enabled line-wrap, which is a
conditional in the Minix kernel source (called something like
LINEWRAP).  If not, remove the ":am" in both termcap entries.  It also
assumes you have enabled insert/delete character, which is called
something like CHARID.  If not, remove the entire line beginning
":ic=" in both termcap's.

In|minix-co|minix console support for color monitor:\
	:do=^J:up=^K:co#80:li#25:am:cl=\E[;H\E[J:\
	:al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:\
	:ic=\E[@:dc=\E[P:IC=\E[%d@:DC=\E[%dP:\
	:le=^H:nd=^N:bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:\
	:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[42m:se=\E[47m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:\
	:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[0m\E[47m:\
	:ho=\E[H:
Im|minix|minix console support for monochrome monitor:\
	:do=^J:up=^K:co#80:li#25:am:cl=\E[;H\E[J:\
	:al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:\
	:ic=\E[@:dc=\E[P:IC=\E[%d@:DC=\E[%dP:\
	:le=^H:nd=^N:bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:\
	:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[7m:se=\E[0m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:\
	:md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:mb=\E[5m:me=\E[0m:\
	:ho=\E[H:

.profile for color monitors:

Warning: because I was afraid that mail might mess up control chars,
in the following I've turned control char's into their ^ equivalent.
That is, what shows up as ^[ below is a ^ followed by a [.  You'll
want to put it back to an actual control [ character.  This is just
the two lines concerned with setting up the colors.  Your .profile
will probably have other things in it.

echo "^[[30m^[[47m^[[H^[[J"
PS1="^[[30m^[[46mminix>^[[47m "