On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 06:47, Jim Ramsay wrote:
I have tried to add an extra entry to /etc/termcap:
rxvt-cygwin-native|rxvt terminal emulator (native MS Windows/Cygwin):\
:pa#64:Co#8:AF=\E[3%dm:AB=\E[4%dm:op=\E[39;49m:\ : :ac=+\257,\256-^0\333`\004a\261f\370g\361h\260j\331k\277l\332m\300n\305o~p\ :304q\304r\304s_t\303u\264v\301w\302x\263y\363z\362{\343|\330~\376:\ : :tc=rxvt-mono:
to try to get linedrawing characters working correctly in my connection from my work computer (cygwin/ssh) to my freebsd machine at home.
1) I edited the file as root and put it just after the existing 'rxvt' entry.
The directory entry /etc/termcap is normally a symbolic link to /usr/share/misc/termcap, which I think you already realised.
The tricky bit is what happens when you attempt to edit a file via a symbolic link. Either of two things can happen depending on the editor you
are using:
1) You actually edit the file at the end of the link and the link remains intact.
I used "vim" and I think that this occurred.
2) The editor presents you with the text from the file at the end of the link
but on saving the changes deletes the link and substitutes the changed text as a file. The file that was at the end of the link remains unchanged.
So you should make sure /etc/termcap is still a link to /usr/share/misc/termcap.
Now go to /usr/share/misc and edit termcap and then execute cap_mkdb.
I have tried this also, but no difference in tcsh's behaviour.
I have even tried editing termcap.src in /usr/src/share/termcap/ and doing a 'make install' there to see if I'm missing a step... but no luck.
I also received an off-list tip from Karl Vogel:
> I've noticed that both zsh and tcsh can get really snotty if the > environment variables are not set in this order: > > unsetenv TERMCAP > unsetenv TERMINFO > unsetenv TERM > setenv TERMCAP /path/to/your/termcap/file (or actual termcap entry) > setenv TERMINFO /path/to/your/terminfo/directory > setenv TERM xterm
But neither TERMCAP nor TERMINFO are set in my normal tcsh environment. I have tried setting and unsetting them in the order given here and many other permutations, to no success.
I have tried logging out and back in again, in case tcsh caches termcap somewhere that isn't updated without re-running tcsh, but I don't think this is the case.
The only thing I haven't tried yet is rebooting - technically I don't think I would have to.
Is there some utility somewhere that can tell me if I've got a typo in my termcap or something which would prevent tcsh from reading my new entry properly?
I suppose could write my own curses program to do this... maybe.
Is there some utility somewhere which will translate my termcap into terminfo so I can try that? Why is there no terminfo stuff in FreeBSD 4.8?
-- Jim Ramsay
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