Re: Small buglet in tset/termcap

On 17/4/01 18:26, Matt Holgate wrote:

>Any ideas what the correct fix is? Should we modify the termcap, or
>post-process tset's output to quote the TERM variable...

The 'setenv TERM CDE terminal emulator' line looks pretty broken to me. I 
don't think post-processing it is a good idea. The TERM variable should 
be 'dtterm'. I'd guess at it being a bug in the termcap file or tset 
itself.

In general though I'm confused as to why you're using tset to set the 
TERM (or TERMCAP) variable(s). This seems a pretty archaic ritual. Unless 
you're logging in via some kind of hardwired BSD console, the TERM 
variable should be getting set by the terminal itself and tset will use 
this to initialise the terminal.

I'm not sure why you'd want to reset the TERM variable, nor why you'd 
want to explicitly set TERMCAP - since any termcap-aware program should 
use the TERM variable to look up whatever it needs in the termcap 
database.

In short, why aren't you just doing 'tset -Q'?

However, I am completely ignorant of the sidai user initialisation 
procedures so I apologise if I'm missing the point.

:-j


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