/share/termcap/README
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- # @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93
- << 12 May 1983 >>
- To install this directory on your system:
- First determine a list of "common terminals" for your system. This list
- will probably be small, and can be empty if you like, but you should
- probably put your own terminal in it.
- Second, edit the editor script "reorder" to use this list instead of the
- list built in to it. The changes will be evident from looking at the
- script. Notice that the script contains the terminals in order from least
- common to most common, since the move commands will move them to the front
- in that order, the effect will be to put the most common at the front of
- termcap since that's moved last. The s.* terminals are specials, and
- although they don't have to go to the front, they are probably quite
- common and really should go near the front.
- Third, if you are not a super user and cannot create the directory
- /usr/lib/tabset, make a corresponding directory somewhere you can and add
- a line to reorder to globally change all /usr/lib/tabset's to your own
- path name. This change is better than just changing the termcap.src file
- because it makes it easier to diff it from newer distributed versions.
- Try to keep the source as is whenever possible, and put mungings into
- reorder.
- Now you can run "make install" which will create an /etc/termcap. Again,
- if you aren't a super user change the cp command to put it where you can.
- In this case you will have to redefine E_TERMCAP in "local/uparm.h", which
- will probably be in subdirectories with the other UCB software.
- Finally, if you make additions or fixes to termcap, please mail a note
- explaining what you did with the fixed termcap entry (not the whole file,
- please!) to me at one of the addresses below, so it can be incorporated
- back into the original source. I will normally include anything unless
- there is a good reason not to, but I reserve the right to redo it differently.
- uunet!ucbvax!termcap (uucp)
- termcap@berkeley.cs.edu (Internet)
- << 14 October 1987 >>
- It is probably easiest to make local termcap changes in separate
- files, eg /usr/local/etc/termcap, and encourage people to put
- setenv TERMPATH ~/.termcap:/usr/local/etc/termcap:/etc/termcap
- in their shell startup files. This way local system-wide changes can be
- isolated in /usr/local/etc/termcap and user changes in ~/.termcap, all
- without consuming lots of disk or requiring re-integration of local
- changes when system termcap files change.
- John Kunze
- termcap@berkeley.cs.edu