ECU2.80 remote termcap requirements

[Warren Tucker]

I have received a couple of requests for termcaps for ecu. Viz:

> Warren, I really appreciate the true IBM-ANSI capability you have
                                  ^^^^ :-) the only thing TRUE about IBM:
"You may be able to buy better stuff, but you cannot buy more expensive stuff."

> built into ECU... for the first time, PC BOARD looks like it is
> supposed to.  However, now the 'ansi' termcaps I use on remote
> UNIX systems >don't< work.
> 
> I'd really appreciate it if you could send me a termcap entry
> known to work correctly with ECU.

Use the SCO ansi termcap in your /etc/termcap.  It is different from
every other 'ansi' termcap in the world, as all other 'ansi' termcaps
are unique as well.  Standards are great! EVERYBODY should have one:

#!/bin/sh
# This is a shell archive (shar 3.27)
# made 05/31/1990 17:28 UTC by root at n4hgf
# Source directory /t
#
# existing files WILL be overwritten
#
# This shar contains:
# length  mode       name
# ------ ---------- ------------------------------------------
#    713 -rw------- scoansi.tcap
#
if touch 2>&1 | fgrep 'mmdd' > /dev/null
 then TOUCH=touch
 else TOUCH=true
fi
# ============= scoansi.tcap ==============
echo "x - extracting scoansi.tcap (Text)"
sed 's/^X//' << 'SHAR_EOF' > scoansi.tcap &&
Xli|ansi|ansi80x25|Ansi standard crt:\
X	:al=\E[L:am:bs:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J\E[H:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:\
X	:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=\E[B:bt=\E[Z:ei=:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:im=:li#25:\
X	:nd=\E[C:pt:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[7m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:\
X	:k1=\E[M:k2=\E[N:k3=\E[O:k4=\E[P:k5=\E[Q:k6=\E[R:\
X	:k7=\E[S:k8=\E[T:k9=\E[U:k0=\E[V:\
X	:kb=^h:ku=\E[A:kd=\E[B:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:eo:sf=\E[S:sr=\E[T:\
X	:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m:\
X	:GS=\E[12m:GE=\E[10m:GV=\63:GH=D:\
X	:GC=E:GL=\64:GR=C:RT=^J:G1=?:G2=Z:G3=@:G4=Y:G5=;:G6=I:G7=H:G8=<:\
X	:GU=A:GD=B:\
X	:CW=\E[M:NU=\E[N:RF=\E[O:RC=\E[P:\
X	:WL=\E[S:WR=\E[T:CL=\E[U:CR=\E[V:\
X	:HM=\E[H:EN=\E[F:PU=\E[I:PD=\E[G:\
X	:Gc=N:Gd=K:Gh=M:Gl=L:Gu=J:Gv=\072:
Xansi43:li#43:tc=ansi:
Xansi24:li#24:tc=ansi:
SHAR_EOF
$TOUCH -am 0531132890 scoansi.tcap &&
chmod 0600 scoansi.tcap ||
echo "restore of scoansi.tcap failed"
set `wc -c scoansi.tcap`;Wc_c=$1
if test "$Wc_c" != "713"; then
	echo original size 713, current size $Wc_c
fi
exit 0

 
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Warren Tucker            gatech!n4hgf!wht or wht%n4hgf at gatech.edu
Hacker Extraordinaire d' async PADs, pods, proteins and protocols