The FreeBSD diaries ... installing filePro for FreeBSD

[Ryan Powers]

On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 02:18:26AM -0400, Brian K. White said:

> There are already, and rightly so, system termcap & terminfo for _every_
> terminal type being used.
> The only sane thing to do is create a cons25 definition in the fp termcap
> that includes any fields the system definition lacks or any that are
> necessary for filepro, exactly as you are already doing for linux and sco
> ansi and all the rest. freebsd is no different.

It is. Not only does it not contain any ANSI graphics or key
labels, it doesn't appear to function the same way that the
other systems do.

> particular termcap entry by having the user set PFTERM only interactively
> and only lasting for the duration of that login session.
> So the fp termcap entry should start like:
> cons25|bsd|FreeBSD Console:\

Sorry, that does not work. I'm trying to find out why.

Out of curiousity, is there a reason why you would avoid PFTERM? Is
it really such an issue?

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Ryan
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