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Re: termcap/info help



On Sun, Mar 14, 1999 at 02:27:15PM -0500, Jonathan P Tomer wrote:
> i frequently login to a remote freebsd system. freebsd uses termcap. is
> there a way to convert my linux and xterm-debian entries from terminfo to
> termcap format? tic *claims* to be able to convert terminfo *source* to
> termcap but it doesn't work; even if it did it doesn't know how to convert
> terminfo binary to source (i had to do it on the termcap-using other
> system... odd, huh?).

You can use infocmp to decompile a terminfo entry.  From there you should
be able to "tic" it into a termcap entry.

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