Termcap for Fedora Core 4 Console

[Barry Wiseman]

Scott Walker wrote:
> I just got a new laptop with Fedora Core 4.  My fp application installs
> and runs fine except for the terminal emulation when I log in at the
> console.
> 
> When I run fp from a non-graphical login, with TERM=linux, I get no end
> of field markers and no lines around the menus.
> 
>>From the graphical login, I tried Applications, System Tools, Terminal,
> and it automatically set TERM=xterm.  With this I got the lines drawn OK
> but but the end of field marks were "?" and the Home key did not work.
> 
> I used this application on my former laptop with Red Hat 7 and
> TERM=linux worked flawlessly.  
> 
> Has someone already worked out the termcap issue with Fedora Core 4 that
> you can share with me.

The voodoo I learned back when I was moving from RH 7.3 was to replace 
the contents of /etc/sysconfig/i18n with

                 LANG="en_US.iso885915"
                 SUPPORTED="en_US.iso885915:en_US:en"
                 SYSFONT="lat0-sun16"
                 SYSFONTACM="iso15"

There may be a better or more proper way, but I still do this 'cause it 
works.

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