The FreeBSD diaries ... installing filePro for FreeBSD

[Ryan Powers]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:39:20PM -0400, Brian K. White said:

> If the console is going to set TERM to cons25, why in the world wouldn't you
> want an entry in fp termcap to be named cons25? PFTERM is a great feature
> that allows various tricks to be pulled off in odd situations, but in 99% of
> instances you should never need it.

There is already a cons25 termcap entry in /etc/termcap which is
insufficient for use with the native FreeBSD version of filePro. So
in order to avoid confusion between that and the custom one
designed specifically for filePro it seemed prudent to give it a
different name.

By confusion I mean the difference between playing 21 questions and
asking "is PFTERM set to bsd"?

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Ryan
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