termcap file, printing, porting

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting "Lerebours, Jose" <Jose.Lerebours at EagleGL.com>:

> JP crawled out of his fox hole and asked/stated:
[...]
> > | 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

TERMCAP is a standard termcap library variable, used to override the
default /etc/termcap setting.

> > 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.

filePro uses both the $PFPROG/fp/lib/termcap and the /etc/termcap (or
the $TERMCAP override) for its settings with filePro's own termcap file
having precedence if a value is set in both.

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