Adam D. Ruppe wrote: > On Sunday, 28 October 2012 at 10:44:58 UTC, Jens Mueller wrote: > >How? > > The file /etc/termcap has the data too so opening it and quickly > parsing should give the same result as the environment variable.
I'm running Debian. It doesn't have such a file. > It looks like this: > > vg|vt-generic|Generic VT entries:\ > :bs:mi:ms:pt:xn:xo:it#8:\ > <snip> > # Slackware 3.1 linux termcap entry (Sat Apr 27 23:03:58 CDT 1996): > lx|linux|console|con80x25|LINUX System Console:\ > :do=^J:co#80:li#25:cl=\E[H\E[J:sf=\ED:sb=\EM:\ > <snip> > > and so on. The $TERM variable is used as a key into one of those > names, then the rest of the data is on the following lines. > > The termcap entries can also inherit from other entries, but again > it is just a key lookup into the list. Jens
