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Re: linux 8.4.11: termcap, as used by tcsh, /usr/bin/less, vi, etc.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Tue Sep 12 18:30:34 2000

Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:30:29 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200009122230.SAA43989@karst.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU>
To: lcs@mit.edu, bugs@mit.edu


>>[xterm termcap is broken on linux athena systems]
>It's tailored for modern XFree86 xterm.

How broken!  What would people think about a rearrangement of the Linux
Athena termcap entries?

This behaviour, IMHO, is really amazingly inappropriate for a system used
in a network environment.  (And arguably anywhere else.)

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