error, or spurious error

Mike Schwartz mschw at athenet.net
Wed Jan 27 10:22:04 PST 2010


> |      I didn't think to copy the linux and xterm entries into the
> filepro
> | termcap.  I thought filePro would take care of filling in any missing
> | termcap entries as I played with different "TERM=" settings in the
> shell.
> 
> Where do you suppose that filePro would get anything with which to
> "fill
> in" anything except from its own termcap file?  And why would you need
> to
> insert missing xterm or linux entries in that file unless you actually
> were using one or the other type as your TERM setting?
> 
> --
> JP

     I was under the assumption that filePro got its initial termcap
information from the shell or by reading the /etc/termmcap.  Then I thought
that filepro used the filePro termcap file to fill in or overwrite any
missing entries.  

     I'm not sure where I got that from.  Maybe it's something I once read,
or maybe it's because if the filePro termcap gets erased or damaged, filePro
seems to still operate fairly well using the standard ansi entries.

Mike



        



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