From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jan 17 21:31:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA1837B404; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:31:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g0I5UmR80661; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:30:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" , "Ruslan Ermilov" Cc: , Subject: RE: termcap versus terminfo Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:30:48 -0800 Message-ID: <000701c19fe1$492e17a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20020117213043.GB41262@hades.hell.gr> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] >Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:31 PM >To: Ruslan Ermilov >Cc: Ted Mittelstaedt; arch@freebsd.org; jasone@canonware.com >Subject: Re: termcap versus terminfo > > >Uhm, nothing. And FILES already mentions cap_mkdb(1). >This means my earlier message about describing how changes can be made >to termcap, is probably meaningless. Ah well :/ > No, rather it highlights the problem in the documentation. You also missed the FILES reference in termcap(5) as well until it was mentioned. If the documentation is so sparse that people have to get on mailing lists and waste bandwidth asking about something then the documentation is inadequate. And, a single reference still doesen't explain the procedure. Documentation is like bandwidth, people may bitch about it but nobody willingly gives up any of what they already have. Anyway, in this case further modifications of the documentation just makes the hacked up ncurses in FreeBSD deviate even more from the ncurses distribution, creating an even further support burden. >If the need arises and people do indeed ask about making their own >terminal entries, I'll go write a FAQ entry about the source of it all >in src/share/termcap/termcap.src > This is also a good idea, we are talking maybe 11 lines of text. How's the following sound: (in replacement of line # 39 about mailing changes to berkeley, which isn't maintaining termcap anymore anyway) -------------cut here------------ # # To add a termcap entry under FreeBSD for a new terminal type, insert # the entry in the appropriate location in /etc/termcap then issue this # command: # # cap_mkdb -f /usr/share/misc/termcap /etc/termcap # # Terminfo source entries can be converted to termcap entries with the # tic program that is part of the ncurses distribution, see the ports # section. # ------------cut here------------- Ted To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message