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From: Patrick McConnell <patrick@interlog.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: terminfo database
Date: 18 Jul 1997 03:34:42 GMT
Organization: InterLog Internet Services
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Ron Echeverri <rone@bofh.noc.best.net> wrote:
> In article <5qjakl$rc7@news.interlog.com>,
> Patrick McConnell  <patrick@interlog.com> wrote:
> >I have a FreeBSD 2.2.2-R machine and a Linux machine. I'm trying to set
> >them up so that they recognise each other's console terminals, ie 'linux'
[..]
> man tconv(1).

Okay, but I still don't have a /usr/lib/terminfo directory. I have the
Linux console termcap info exported to a file, and I ran 'tconv -c
<file>', but what do I do with the output? I still don't know
where the terminfo database is.

> rone


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