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1.1     ! root        1: << 14 October 1987 >>
        !             2: It is probably easiest to make local termcap changes in separate
        !             3: files, eg /usr/local/etc/termcap, and encourage people to put
        !             4: 
        !             5:        setenv TERMPATH ~/.termcap:/usr/local/etc/termcap:/etc/termcap 
        !             6: 
        !             7: in their shell startup files.  This way local system-wide changes can be
        !             8: isolated in /usr/local/etc/termcap and user changes in ~/.termcap, all
        !             9: without consuming lots of disk or requiring re-integration of local
        !            10: changes when system termcap files change.
        !            11: 
        !            12:        John Kunze
        !            13:        termcap@berkeley
        !            14: 
        !            15: << 12 May 1983 >>
        !            16: To install this directory on your system:
        !            17: 
        !            18: First determine a list of "common terminals" for your system.
        !            19: This list will probably be small, and can be empty if you like,
        !            20: but you should probably put your own terminal in it.
        !            21: 
        !            22: Second, edit the editor script "reorder" to use this list instead
        !            23: of the list built in to it.  The changes will be evident from looking
        !            24: at the script.  Notice that the script contains the terminals in order
        !            25: from least common to most common, since the move commands will move them
        !            26: to the front in that order, the effect will be to put the most common
        !            27: at the front of termcap since that's moved last.  The s.* terminals
        !            28: are specials, and although they don't have to go to the front, they are
        !            29: probably quite common and really should go near the front.
        !            30: 
        !            31: Third, if you are not a super user and cannot create the directory
        !            32: /usr/lib/tabset, make a corresponding directory somewhere you can and
        !            33: add a line to reorder to globally change all /usr/lib/tabset's to your
        !            34: own path name.  This change is better than just changing the termcap.src
        !            35: file because it makes it easier to diff it from newer distributed versions.
        !            36: Try to keep the source as is whenever possible, and put mungings into reorder.
        !            37: 
        !            38: Now you can run "make install" which will create an /etc/termcap. Again,
        !            39: if you aren't a super user change the cp command to put it where you can.
        !            40: In this case you will have to redefine E_TERMCAP in "local/uparm.h", which
        !            41: will probably be in subdirectories with the other UCB software.
        !            42: 
        !            43: 
        !            44: Finally, if you make additions or fixes to termcap, please mail a note
        !            45: explaining what you did with the fixed termcap entry (not the whole file,
        !            46: please!) to me at one of the addresses below, so it can be incorporated
        !            47: back into the original source.  I will normally include anything unless
        !            48: there is a good reason not to, but I reserve the right to redo it differently.
        !            49: 
        !            50:        ucbvax!termcap                          (uucp)
        !            51:        termcap@berkeley                        (Arpanet)

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