Re: termcap details??

In article <4515f8$qtc@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu> cwoodall@vth4.vth.colostate.edu "Con Woodall" writes: > I am trying to come up with > as comprehensive a termcap as possible to facilitate users working > through multiple windows on X-terminals running either as aixterm > or xterm. I have been told and have even done some manipulating of > specific items in both aixterm and xterm termcaps, but I am having > a hard time narrowing my experimenting down to the handful of > keys I can't seem to get to work correctly. Perhaps you can direct > me to a good source of information--manual, etc. I have retrieved > a number of termcaps from the informix ftp site and found them lacking > in some way. I would suggest the following: i) separate termcap files according to your value of $TERM; ii) do you have terminals with different keyboard layouts but the same value of $TERM? If so you need to put some stugg in place as each keyboard layout will need a separate $TERMCAP file - the value of i) above them becomes apparent when you can have multiple TERMCAP files for the same value of $TERM but with different strings for the various functions! iii) Informix also document some of this in one of their books and this also is worth reading in addition to the O'Reilly book mentioned in another reply; iv) When I'm trying to do this sort of job, I find 'cat -v' most useful, as is using 'CtlV' in 'vi' to allow me to enter values from the keyboard - though I don't advise leaving unprintable characters in termcap files. v) You could use 'infocmp' to get a basic starting termcap file from the machine's own terminfo entries for $TERM. This may or may not be of use! -- ============================================================================ Sally Woolrich | This mail contains my personal sally@excelsis.demon.co.uk | views not those of my employer! ============================================================================