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Annotation of 42BSD/etc/termcap/README, revision 1.1.1.1

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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