Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:19:05 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: <839273@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cygwin termcap entry Message-ID: <20101015201905.GA95390@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikTR43izEtePgBKnvkT_-j-sEwPxfFPxcZMNupB@mail.gmail.com> References: <20101015174546.GA84021@sandvine.com> <AANLkTikTR43izEtePgBKnvkT_-j-sEwPxfFPxcZMNupB@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:09:11PM -0430, Andres Perera wrote: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I'd like to replace our termcap entry for cygwin with either one taken > > from /etc/termcap on a Cygwin system, as in the patch below, or maybe > > with the one from http://catb.org/esr/terminfo/termtypes.tc.gz. > > > > Any comments? > > The problem is that it _does_ share capabilities with linux, so don't > get rid of tc=linux. The one from catb.org has tc=ansi.sys instead; just because there are a common subset of capabilities doesn't necessarily imply that it should use tc=, in my opinion. Does it share capabilities with Linux because it is based on some code in Linux? -Ed
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