[8992] in Athena Bugs
Re: vt100 termcap entry?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Feb 19 11:40:28 1992
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 11:40:15 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: thorne@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [8991]
From: thorne@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 09:44:18 EST
If a user sets his terminal type to VT00 instead of vt100
^^^^
I assume you mean VT100.
they don't get proper terminal emulation, since there is no entry
for VT100 in the termcap file and it does the search case
sensitively. It would be nice for VT100 to work, so we don't have
explain all this to users.
I'm not convinced. Using this logic, we should put upper-case and
lower-case entries into /etc/termcap for all names of all terminal
types. That would be a pain in the neck, a mess in the termcap file,
and Athena-specific and non-standard. Besides that, I'm not convinced
that the gain would be appreciable; I've never had to answer a
question from a user who was typing VT100 instead of vt100, and I've
been answering OLC questions for almost five years.
Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance
