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Re: termcap

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Zsh Users <zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: termcap
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 09:25:33 -0400
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> this machine doesn't have zsh so i'm running zsh from $HOME/bin/
> did i need to tell zsh the location of terminfo when i compiled it? do i
> just need to set different environment variables?
> 
> if termcap is needed, i have a current copy of that in $HOME/etc/termcap
> 
> i'm having the same problem with tcsh, so i'm assuming there's just some
> variable i need to set.

bash treats the TERMINFO parameter as special, and resets the terminal every
time it changes.  zsh (and tcsh, I assume) don't currently know about this
variable.  Other than the zsh/terminfo module, zsh is dealing with
termcap or termcap emulation.

On the other hand, zsh does react when the TERM parameter is changed.
I have zsh linked against ncurses, which knows about TERMINFO even though
zsh doesn't, and if I export TERMINFO, then change TERM, it will happily
find the terminfo definitions in $TERMINFO.

Thus, I think you are either not exporting TERMINFO to the environment
or the library which is providing zsh with tgetent() and friends
doesn't care about that variable.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: termcap
  - From: Will Yardley

References:
- termcap
  - From: Will Yardley

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