Termcap (was Re: FilePro from Linux xterm or other terminal?)

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>On 8/27/2010 1:10 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>[...]
>> Back in the day, FilePro would search two termcaps, /etc/termcap,
>> or the file in the TERMCAP environment variable, then the
>> appl/fp/termcap file.  This was to get around the 1024 character
>> limitation on the termcap entries for a particular terminal.  I
>> think it merged the two, generally getting the key codes, cursor
>> control, etc. from the first, and the FP specific P? and L? codes
>> were define in the fp/termcap file.
>
>filePro still uses both /etc/termcap (or $TERMCAP) and $PFPROG/fp/termcap. 
>It will use all entries from both termcap files (as opposed to some from 
>one, and others from the other), and anything in filePro's termcap will 
>override the "normal" termcap.

Does that mean I have to hack $PFPROG/fp/termcap instead of
creating a copy which is specified in the $TERMCAP variable?  I
really don't like hacking distribution versions of files like
that or /etc/termcap as vendor updates will probably nuke my
changes.  Needless to say, I learned this the hard way.

Bill
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