Re: [ILUG] termcap etc.

From: Ronan Cunniffe (rcunniff at domain wilde.cs.tcd.ie)
Date: Wed 24 Oct 2001 - 18:49:10 IST


On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, John P. Looney wrote:

> I'm trying to shrink the size of the ncurses terminfo package's installed
> files.
>
> I don't really want all the wierd ass terminals that it supports, and the
> disk space that needs.
>
> xterm, vt100, vt52, vt220 and ansi will be sufficent, I think. Is there
Obviously, this depends on what you'll be doing. I stripped it right down
to just the 'linux' entry for a diskless workstation - which seems to
work. I stripped the termcap file down the same way - and that also
doesn't cause me any problems, but YMMV.

>
> Kate

Ronan C.



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