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- From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
- Subject: Re: Does Gulam use TERMCAP?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.084005.9568@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Summary: No, it doesn't.
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- Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL
- References: <1992Nov21.082438.21290@r-node.gts.org>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 08:40:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov21.082438.21290@r-node.gts.org> mike@r-node.gts.org (Mike Stramba) writes:
- >I use Gulam all the time, but only recently have started playing with the
- >terminal emulator. I see in the doc file, there is mention of a termcap emtry,
- >with which the author stated 'we have used this with `vi and `emacs.
-
- That little note describes a termcap entry that you can use on a Unix box to
- drive the Gulam screen, which is just the standard Atari screen control
- characters. Most folks call this setup "st52" because it is a superset of
- the VT52 controls.
- >
- >If I set the TERMCAP variable to TERMCAP = "d:\termcap", with the file
- >d:\termcap containg the term def, will Gulam actually use it? I tried it, and
- >connected to a dos-ansi system. It wasn't working, .... should it?
-
- Nope. Gulam knows nothing about termcap. Quite a pity. At some point I'm
- definitely going to have to recompile the thing; I use it too much to let
- it go like this...
- --
- -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
-
- All true wisdom is conveyed in one-line witticisms.
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