Re: lynx-dev Lynx-Editor problem

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> From: David Woolley <address@hidden> 
>  
> > > I've got both TERM and TERMINFO defined as vt100. 
> > > TERMCAP is several lines long ('printenv') 
> >  
> > On a properly configued Unix shell account, TERMCAP should not be in 
> > the environment.  The fact that it is multiple lines suggests that 
>  
> On many (most?) BSD based systems that I have used, there is a call to 
> I think tset that intentionally reads the terminal info into TERMCAP. 
> The screen command is an app that does this.  This is intentional -  
> it provides the user with _one_ file read for terminal info - accesses 
> by applications after that are simple string accesses. 
>  
> This is EXTREMELY common. 
xterm does that also (on BSD systems).  The $TERMCAP variable can be any
of

        + a terminal name

        + a complete description

        + a filename

> Larry W. Virden                 INET: address@hidden 

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