Microport termcap/terminfo

[Vernon Schryver]

Is there a well known terminal type that the console or virtual consoles
in Microport 386 unix emulate?  I know that setting TERM to AT386 is a good
answer when talking to vi on the PC itself.  I have been told by Microport
to use 'ansi' when talking to other machines thru cu(1).

However, a SVR0 termcap system and a SVR3 terminfo system I'm passing
familiar with don't seem to have anything that works.  'Ansi' and 'vt100'
are close but do not work.  There is nothing close to 'at' or '386' in
the SVR3.[01] terminfo stuff that came on the tapes.   The things in
pc.ti don't work at all.  (Yes, I looked at SGI's source, in case there
was an SGI bug to fix.)

I realize that it is possible to write new termcap and terminfo entries,
maybe starting from the AT386 that comes on the Microport diskettes in
/usr/lib/terminfo, and teach each machine I might `cu` to about this terminal
emulator, but that does not seem like the optimal solution.

If Sun's 386 machine happens to use the same stuff, so that they taught
SunOS 4.0 or beyond about it, then I guess it might be a good idea to add it
to SGI's next release.  I don't know, do you?


Vernon Schryver
vjs at sgi.com