[parisc-linux] Terminfo/termcap for a 70096 ...

John David Anglin dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca
Tue, 5 Aug 2003 14:38:23 -0400 (EDT)


> > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:04:24PM +0200, "Beerse, Corn=E9" wrote:
> > > Unfortunatly, while installing DebianWoody on a D370, I found none =
> of
> them
> > > in the terminfo database (and no termcap file). And the HP700/96 =
> came
> with
> > > the D370. I know one thing to do after finalizing the install....
> >=20
> > Yeah, Debian doesn't have termcap, there's a document somewhere that
> > explains why.
> 
> I don't care if they use termcap or terminfo. It bothers me that they =
> have
> no HP700xx entry in there, not even in the pa-risc distribution. =
> Specially
> the pa-risc distro can find a 700xx terminal at its console so it would =
> be
> nice if the TERM boot parameter can be set to indicate a hp700 =
> terminal.

GNU ncurses 2.2 has an entry for a HP 700/44 which is probably usable.

Dave
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