Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > in practice, the "linux" entry not being supported by solaris (for > example) was handled by people doing "set term=vt100" and whining a > lot...
A solution is to tell them to: linux$ infocmp xterm-color > missing-term.tic (replace `xterm-color' with your favourite terminal name found on linux, but not on Solaris) Get `missing-terms.tic' somehow to the Solaris machine, solaris$ TERMINFO=$HOME/.missing-terms solaris$ export TERMINFO solaris$ mkdir $TERMINFO solaris$ tic missing-term.tic and put this in some init file: TERMINFO=$HOME/.missing-terms export TERMINFO - Hari -- Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When all else fails, read the instructions." -- Cahn's Axiom "Our policy is, when in doubt, do the right thing." -- Roy L Ash -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .