Re: FreeBSD Console

[ Available lists | Index of freebsd-stable | Month of Jul 2000 | Week of 29 Jul 2000 | Raw email | View thread | Wrap long lines | Reply | Tag ]
From
Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
Date
29 Jul 2000 02:37:16
Subject
Re: FreeBSD Console
Message-ID
200007290937.LAA13885@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de


[ Hide this part ]
In list.freebsd-stable Chad R. Larson <chad@dcfinc.com> wrote:
> Right (and what we did here) is to extract the "cons25" entry from your
> /etc/termcap, move it to the Sun machine, and compile it into a terminfo
> entry (using "captoinfo(1M)" and "tic(1M))". Install that on all the
> Suns. You'll need admin priviledges to do that.

Not necessrily, you can use it as normal user, too.
Just set $TERMINFO to a directory in your home that
contains the compiled terminfo set.

Regards
Oliver

--
Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany
(Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de)
Addresses will change soon!! If in doubt: www.fromme.com

"In jedem Stck Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt"
(Terry Pratchett)


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message



Elapsed time: 0.083 seconds