Thomas,
When screen first starts up it sets my TERM variable to screen
and my TERMCAP variable to its own descriptor. In this default
case the TERm matches the alias name.
I don't use the default case. I change my TERM variable to vt100 and
pick up a system terminal descriptor. This is much clearer to me now. Much
more so than when I began this little project.
My only reason for not staying with the default screen terminal
descriptor was that it did not work with vi. This was the original
motivation for me to change descriptors to the 'real' vt100.
Rudy
> I didn't notice that in your earlier message (which is odd, but my
> attention was on the content of the terminal description rather than
> the aliases -- but I don't have that email here for reference).
>
> But as you present it, that's an error - a termcap typically has a
> 2-character abbreviation, but must have an alias to match the value given
> in $TERM.
>
> > either the /etc/termcap or /usr/share/lib/the terminfo version of the
> > descriptor.
>
> ...depending on how it recovered. But the first time you configured,
> you said you'd used /etc/termcap, which (if ncurses was not able to
> find the proper terminfo) would have been translated to $HOME/.terminfo
> (but see my faq for that).
>
> >
> >
> > Rudy
> >
> > > that's still the same one you mentioned: screen.
> > >
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