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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!scanner.worldgate.com!alpha3!Russell_Schulz Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc From: Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG (Russell Schulz) Reply-To: Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG (Russell Schulz) Subject: Re: are custom termcaps supported? Message-ID: <960205.204226.4R1.rnr.w164w@locutus.ofB.ORG> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 20:42:26 -0700 References: <960131.220656.7S0.rnr.w164w@locutus.ofb.org> Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada X-Newsreader: rnr v2.14 Lines: 30 <someone.helpful@bsdi.com> writes: > % sh > $ TERM=rb; export TERM > $ TERMCAP=$HOME/term.rb; export TERMCAP > $ clear > tput: tgetent failure: No such file or directory right here I have a difference. (I also did not have a term.rb) host$ /bin/sh $ TERM=rb; export TERM $ TERMCAP=$HOME/term.rb; export TERMCAP $ /usr/local/bin/clear 'rb': Unknown terminal type. $ /usr/bin/clear unknown terminal "rb" $ ^D at the moment, I have no idea what /usr/local/bin/clear is doing there. thanks to those who also warned that pdksh might not be expanding the leading ~ -- it does. I should've used $HOME instead to avoid that possibility. I seem to remember the BSDI machines shipped with source -- I'll have to find out if it's anywhere on the filesystem I'm using (or I could just search for tput.c ...) -- Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG Shad 86c