Termcap issue Fedora 11

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009, Tom Aldridge wrote:
>I suppose someone will yell about me even running Fedora but...
>
>Been running various Fedora (1, 5, 9) with perfect emulation from a 
>gnome-terminal using the xterm in filePro termcap.  Now on a new install 
>on a Fedora 11 box, the horizontal and vertical lines and corners all 
>question marks. I've tried the standard termcap file from a fresh 
>filePro installation as well as a good one from an earlier install and 
>the same thing. All the other key functionality seems good, but for this 
>line issue. It's these codes below that are not working as expected. Any 
>ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
>linux|Linux Console:\
>  :GV=\263:GH=\304:\
>  :G1=\277:G2=\332:G3=\300:G4=\331:
>
>xterm|xterm-color|rxvt|XFree86 3.3.x xterm or rxvt 2.x:\
>         :GV=x:GH=q:G1=k:G2=l:G3=m:G4=j:

As a general rule, we always have a termcap independent of the
vendors that isn't subject the the vagaries of the vendor.

Copy a working termcap to /usr/local/etc/termcap

In /etc/profile, ~/.profile or in a Filepro startup script add:

TERMCAP=/usr/local/etc/termap
export TERMCAP

You can then make local modifications, additions, etc. to the
local /usr/local/etc/termcap file without having to worry about
what the underlying system does.

Bill
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