[6419] in Athena Bugs
termcap identification of VT-220
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H Saltzer)
Thu Nov 15 17:24:48 1990
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 90 17:24:35 EST
From: Jerome H Saltzer <Saltzer@mit.edu>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The file /srvd/etc/termcap contains the following entry:
da|vt200|vt200-nam|dec vt200|dec-vt200|vt220|vt200-js|vt220-js|dec vt200 serieswith jump scroll:\
:ae=4\E(B:\
:as=2\E(<:\
:tc=vt100p:
The only name in this entry for the dec vt220 is "vt220", but the
"official" name of that terminal, as specified in RFC-1060, is
"DEC-VT220". The official name should be added to the list, so as to
cater to telnet implementations that are capable of informing the
system what terminal they emulate.
This change is of some local interest because the telnet that comes
with FTP Software's PC/TCP emulates a DEC-VT220, but the current
termcap prevents it from informing the system of that fact.
The following entry fixes the problem (apparently upper/lower-case
doesn't matter):
da|vt200|vt200-nam|dec vt200|dec-vt200|dec-vt220|vt220|vt200-js|vt220-js|dec vt200 serieswith jump scroll:\
:ae=4\E(B:\
:as=2\E(<:\
:tc=vt100p:
I haven't looked to see whether or not other terminal types that are
popular with telnet terminal emulators are listed in the termcap under
their "official" names; it might be worth checking.
Jerry
