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Annotation of 42BSD/etc/termcap/README, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: To install this directory on your system:
        !             2: 
        !             3: First determine a list of "common terminals" for your system.
        !             4: This list will probably be small, and can be empty if you like,
        !             5: but you should probably put your own terminal in it.
        !             6: 
        !             7: Second, edit the editor script "reorder" to use this list instead
        !             8: of the list built in to it.  The changes will be evident from looking
        !             9: at the script.  Notice that the script contains the terminals in order
        !            10: from least common to most common, since the move commands will move them
        !            11: to the front in that order, the effect will be to put the most common
        !            12: at the front of termcap since that's moved last.  The s.* terminals
        !            13: are specials, and although they don't have to go to the front, they are
        !            14: probably quite common and really should go near the front.
        !            15: 
        !            16: Third, if you are not a super user and cannot create the directory
        !            17: /usr/lib/tabset, make a corresponding directory somewhere you can and
        !            18: add a line to reorder to globally change all /usr/lib/tabset's to your
        !            19: own path name.  This change is better than just changing the termcap.src
        !            20: file because it makes it easier to diff it from newer distributed versions.
        !            21: Try to keep the source as is whenever possible, and put mungings into reorder.
        !            22: 
        !            23: Now you can run "make install" which will create an /etc/termcap. Again,
        !            24: if you aren't a super user change the cp command to put it where you can.
        !            25: In this case you will have to redefine E_TERMCAP in "local/uparm.h", which
        !            26: will probably be in subdirectories with the other UCB software.
        !            27: 
        !            28: 
        !            29: Finally, if you make additions or fixes to termcap, please mail a note
        !            30: explaining what you did with the fixed termcap entry (not the whole file,
        !            31: please!) to me at one of the addresses below, so it can be incorporated
        !            32: back into the original source.  I will normally include anything unless
        !            33: there is a good reason not to, but I reserve the right to redo it differently.
        !            34: 
        !            35:        ucbvax!termcap                          (uucp)
        !            36:        termcap@berkeley                        (Arpanet)
        !            37: or
        !            38:        Kevin Layer
        !            39:        Computer Science Division
        !            40:        Evans Hall
        !            41:        University of California
        !            42:        Berkeley, California  94720

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