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Subject: Kermit 2.2
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Date: 9 Feb 90 12:10:02 GMT
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I've been using Kermit 2.2 on my 128 for some time now, but I still haven't
found out how to use some of its features, most notably the included
termcap and the 25th line status line.

The termcap, according to the UNIX experts here at UCD, is missing a colon
at the end.  Even with this fixed, however, they still can't quite tell
me how to use it correctly.  Their suggestion went:

setenv TERMCAP {filename}
setenv TERM {terminal type}

However, this invaribly produced a "Bad termcap entry error: unknown terminal
type" (or something very similar to that) error whenever I tried to execute
anthing that required cursor movement (ie vi).

I figure that once I get the termcap working, I should just be able to give
the "sysline" command to activate the 25th line status line.  When I do
that now, I also get the error above.  Does anyone know how these things work?