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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Correct term entry for console
- Message-ID: <15365@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 01:10:53 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.185043.12197@ncselxsi.uucp>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >I'm running running SunOS 4.1.1 on a SPARCstation 1+ and am wondering
- >what the prefered entry for using a B&W display in a non-windowed
- >(console) environment. I notice that there are plenty of "sun"
- >termcap entries, but which one correctly describes the screen in
- >console mode?
-
- "sun" is probably the closest approximation. "sun", as of 4.0, is
- actually an entry for a "shelltool"; the console is, as of 4.0, roughly
- a subset of a "shelltool" - there are some things it does that a
- "shelltool" doesn't, but there are also some probably-more-significant
- things that a "shelltool" does that it doesn't, such as handling
- underline, inverse-video, and bold as separate video attributes.
-
- "sun-cmd" is for a "cmdtool", and the other "sun-XXX" entries are for
- specialized purposes or for "shelltool" windows with other than 34 rows
- and with software that doesn't know about TIOCGWINSZ.
-