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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!tribune.usask.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!scanner.worldgate.com!alpha3!Russell_Schulz Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc From: Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG (Russell Schulz) Reply-To: Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG (Russell Schulz) Subject: are custom termcaps supported? Message-ID: <960131.220656.7S0.rnr.w164w@locutus.ofB.ORG> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 22:06:56 -0700 Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada X-Newsreader: rnr v2.13 Lines: 30 (I'm using someone else's BSD/OS machine) all my termcap documentation says I don't have to edit /etc/termcap for a new terminal type, but I can't seem to get clear to work. I have a termcap entry in ~/lib/termcap.rbcomm which begins like rb|rbcomm|Some Description:\ so I've tried this (from pdksh) TERM=rb; TERMCAP=~/lib/termcap.rbcomm; export TERM TERMCAP but `clear' won't work. nor will it if I use TERM=rb; TERMCAP=`cat ~/lib/termcap.rbcomm`; export TERM TERMCAP both times it says: 'rb': Unknown terminal type. I've also tried playing with TERMPATH and creating ~/.termcap -- nothing seems to be working. am I out of luck here without root [with which I could just edit /etc/termcap or ../share/termcap] on this machine? please mail, and I'll summarize, or CC: me on posts, and I won't. -- Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG Shad 86c