Re: tn3270, mset and map3270

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jan 17,  4:57am, roy%NetBSD.org@localhost (Roy Marples) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: tn3270, mset and map3270

| > - Are we providing all the termcap capabilities that have different
| > names under terminfo?
| > http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908775/xcurses/terminfo.html
| 
| Yes.

Great

| > - Are you planning to link libtermcap.so to libterminfo.so?
| 
| Yes.

Great

| > - Will setting $TERMCAP still work? What are you planning to do with
| > tset -s? - Who are we copying the terminfo library from? FreeBSD? -
| > Something needs to be done with tn3270 (c3270 or whatever)
| 
| $TERMCAP will not work
| tset -s just prints $TERM

$ tset -s
set noglob;                                                             
setenv TERM xterm;
setenv TERMCAP 
'xterm|vs100:am:bs:km:mi:ms:ut:xn:co#80:it#8:li#24:Co#8:pa#64:AB=\E[4%dm:AF=\E[3%dm:op=\E[m:@1=\EOE:@7=\EOF:@8=\EOM:k;=\E[21~:ac=\140\140aaffggjjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~:AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:K1=\EOw:K2=\EOy:K3=\EOu:K4=\EOq:K5=\EOs:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA:ae=^O:al=\E[L:as=^N:bl=^G:bt=\E[Z:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=^J:eA=\E(B\E)0:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:ho=\E[H:im=\E[4h:is=\E[m\E7\E[r\E[?7h\E[?1;3;4;6l\E[4l\E8\E>:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:k5=\E[15~:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:kD=\E[3~:kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kb=^H:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:kh=\EOH:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:le=^H:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:rc=\E8:sc=\E7:se=\E[m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:te=\E[2J\E[?47l\E8:ti=\E7\E[?47h:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:us=\E[4m:ve=\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:vs=\E[?25h:ZZ=

You mean it will only print $TERM from now on?

| I wrote the terminfo code, but the terminfo database is from ncurses.

Will the database be imported in external? What is the license for it?
Hopefully not GPL...

| > There are probably a few more things that will break that I have not
| > considered so far...

Like screen(1) that uses $TERMCAP.

| Thanks

Thank you.

christos