/share/termcap/README

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  1. # @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93
  2. << 12 May 1983 >>
  3. To install this directory on your system:
  4. First determine a list of "common terminals" for your system. This list
  5. will probably be small, and can be empty if you like, but you should
  6. probably put your own terminal in it.
  7. Second, edit the editor script "reorder" to use this list instead of the
  8. list built in to it. The changes will be evident from looking at the
  9. script. Notice that the script contains the terminals in order from least
  10. common to most common, since the move commands will move them to the front
  11. in that order, the effect will be to put the most common at the front of
  12. termcap since that's moved last. The s.* terminals are specials, and
  13. although they don't have to go to the front, they are probably quite
  14. common and really should go near the front.
  15. Third, if you are not a super user and cannot create the directory
  16. /usr/lib/tabset, make a corresponding directory somewhere you can and add
  17. a line to reorder to globally change all /usr/lib/tabset's to your own
  18. path name. This change is better than just changing the termcap.src file
  19. because it makes it easier to diff it from newer distributed versions.
  20. Try to keep the source as is whenever possible, and put mungings into
  21. reorder.
  22. Now you can run "make install" which will create an /etc/termcap. Again,
  23. if you aren't a super user change the cp command to put it where you can.
  24. In this case you will have to redefine E_TERMCAP in "local/uparm.h", which
  25. will probably be in subdirectories with the other UCB software.
  26. Finally, if you make additions or fixes to termcap, please mail a note
  27. explaining what you did with the fixed termcap entry (not the whole file,
  28. please!) to me at one of the addresses below, so it can be incorporated
  29. back into the original source. I will normally include anything unless
  30. there is a good reason not to, but I reserve the right to redo it differently.
  31. uunet!ucbvax!termcap (uucp)
  32. termcap@berkeley.cs.edu (Internet)
  33. << 14 October 1987 >>
  34. It is probably easiest to make local termcap changes in separate
  35. files, eg /usr/local/etc/termcap, and encourage people to put
  36. setenv TERMPATH ~/.termcap:/usr/local/etc/termcap:/etc/termcap
  37. in their shell startup files. This way local system-wide changes can be
  38. isolated in /usr/local/etc/termcap and user changes in ~/.termcap, all
  39. without consuming lots of disk or requiring re-integration of local
  40. changes when system termcap files change.
  41. John Kunze
  42. termcap@berkeley.cs.edu