termcap file, printing, porting

[Lerebours, Jose]

JP crawled out of his fox hole and asked/stated:

> Lerebours, Jose propounded (on Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 08:12:17AM -0600):
> | > I still have a couple of issues:
> | > 
> | > 1.)/etc/termcap - The ESC key doesn't work like it is
> | > supposed to. It doesn't save when I hit it. Before
> | > 'ESC-ESC' was what we hit to save changes. Also,
> | > instead of lines around the menu borders, the
> | > characters "3" and "8" are the borders. It makes it
> | > hard to enter numerical data, since the field input
> | > bleeds into the 3's and 8's.
> | > I don't have a complete list of the environmental
> | > variables. Is this an /etc/termcap issue or a variable
> | > one?
> | > 
> | 
> | Your best bet is to usr /appl/fp/termcap in lieu of 
> | /etc/termcap.  To do this, user variables FPTERM and
> | FPTERMCAP
> 
> FPTERMCAP?  What does that do?
> 

Tells filePro where to find termcap entries ...  Does it not? It 
could just be TERMCAP not PFTERMCAP


> And you don't use /appl/fp/termcap *instead* of /etc/termcap.  filePro
> has always used both.

Really?  I was under the impression that /etc/termcap is the default but
if above variable is set, then the target termcap will be used.  




JL