error, or spurious error

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/27/2010 12:47 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Mike Schwartz propounded (on Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:46:42PM -0600):
[...]
> |      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?

Well, filePro will use /etc/termcap to "fill in" any "missing" items. 
(Well, technically, filePro uses /etc/termcap and then uses 
$PFPROG/fp/termcap, with filePro's overriding anything already read from 
/etc/termcap.  The net effect is the same, however.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody