[25471] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 9.2.15: /etc/termcap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Jan 28 15:13:46 2004
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:13:40 -0500
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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Right, terminfo is what I meant - I know /etc/termcap is deprecated.
Why not to send bug reports at 1:30 in the morning.
Yeah, I know Solaris provides the terminal database, and that we
generally don't like messing with OS stuff, but I figured I'd report
it anyway...
I'm not so much concerned about sacrificing color as I am about "It
sucks that users who ssh in to the dialups from OS X get a useless
value for $TERM.". Though arguably, that's Apple's fault for not
picking a more compatible value for $TERM.
So I guess the best solution for this is probably stock answers in
both the OLC and Helpdesk trees.
-Jon
At 3:09 PM -0500 1/28/04, Greg Hudson wrote:
>To the best of my knowledge, it is not even a little bit easy for us to
>add terminal entries to the ones provided on Solaris, though I may be
>wrong about that.
>
>(I believe /etc/termcap is only there for compatibility with SunOS 4.x
>binaries. The primary terminal type database is the terminfo database
>in /usr/share/lib/terminfo.)
>
>Manually setting TERM to "xtermc" may be a valid workaround which
>doesn't sacrifice color, but I can't test it against OSX.
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