TERMCAP in 4.1

[Daniel Ehrlich]

In article <7166 at brazos.Rice.edu> auspex!guy at uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) writes:

> X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 134, message 17

|Has anybody used non-default TERMCAP files in 4.1 ?  I am running 4.1 on a
|SPARC and vi is ignoring my TERMCAP file and using /usr/share/lib/termcap.
|The same file works fine on 4.0.3.

> "vi", in 4.0.3, is based on the 4.3BSD one, and uses "termcap".

> "vi", in 4.1, is (unless they changed things after I left) based on the
> System V Release 3.1 one (it was, by far, the easiest way to make an 8-bit
> clean version that lets you use international character sets like ISO
> Latin #1), and uses "terminfo".

> Thus, it's ignoring not only your "termcap" file, but all "termcap" files,
> including the one in "/usr/share/lib".  To quote from CURSES(3V) in 4.0.3
> (probably unchanged for 4.1):

Gakkkkk!!  Does anyone know where one can find a TERMCAP -> TERMINFO
converter?  Does 4.1 include one?

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