Re: vt100 compliance

[Kristoffer Lawson <setok@fishpool.com>]

On Sat, 23 May 1998, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:

> Sorry to disagree, but when I was using Citenet.Net as my provider
> (they give shell access on top of regular dialup), I recall running
> into the same problem, uploading termcap and editing my .bash_login,
> then being told by "unix gurus" it might instead require a terminfo,
> which I also uploaded and installed. 

Are you sure their system wasn't based on terminfo aswell? Most are
nowadays..

> 
> No go.  A quick call to Citenet tech support confirmed their Pine is
> hardcoded to use the global termcap/terminfo from the system; a user
> profile is simply ignored "for security reasons".

Well that sounds pretty stupid from them. I'd guess they morer likely
didn't know what they were talking about,.. but who knows.

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