BUG: FreeBSD version 5.0.14 (at least) Bad config file entries

[ryan at bulldogsoftware.com]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 11:04:10PM -0400, John Esak said:

> The config file entries have some spurious environment variables, and some
> full pathnames to various diretories.  Also, there is an entry for
> PFTERM=bsd. I have no idea why config file looks so strange, but it seems to
> be someone's personal testing type file rather than what should be there, a
> good default config.

Hi John,

It has been a couple of years since I worked on that but I'll try my
best in explaining it.

FreeBSD has a default term type of cons25 which is not fully
compatible with filePro and it does not provide anything which is more
compatible via the standard termcap file. There are various quirks
which led me to write a new termcap entry for filePro on
FreeBSD. I named it 'bsd'. 

And due to the nature of the install program there were several points
where the default termcap would cause the install to fail. The only
solution was to force the use of my custom termcap definition. 

In short, my bsd termcap is the only thing that will allow filePro to
run as expected on FreeBSD. If there are any alternatives I'd would
like to know about them.


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Ryan Powers
Bulldog Software, Inc.
http://www.bulldogsoftware.com
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