1# @(#)README 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/8/93 2 3<< 12 May 1983 >> 4To install this directory on your system: 5 6First determine a list of "common terminals" for your system. This list 7will probably be small, and can be empty if you like, but you should 8probably put your own terminal in it. 9 10Second, edit the editor script "reorder" to use this list instead of the 11list built in to it. The changes will be evident from looking at the 12script. Notice that the script contains the terminals in order from least 13common to most common, since the move commands will move them to the front 14in that order, the effect will be to put the most common at the front of 15termcap since that's moved last. The s.* terminals are specials, and 16although they don't have to go to the front, they are probably quite 17common and really should go near the front. 18 19Third, if you are not a super user and cannot create the directory 20/usr/lib/tabset, make a corresponding directory somewhere you can and add 21a line to reorder to globally change all /usr/lib/tabset's to your own 22path name. This change is better than just changing the termcap.src file 23because it makes it easier to diff it from newer distributed versions. 24Try to keep the source as is whenever possible, and put mungings into 25reorder. 26 27Now you can run "make install" which will create an /etc/termcap. Again, 28if you aren't a super user change the cp command to put it where you can. 29In this case you will have to redefine E_TERMCAP in "local/uparm.h", which 30will probably be in subdirectories with the other UCB software. 31 32 33Finally, if you make additions or fixes to termcap, please mail a note 34explaining what you did with the fixed termcap entry (not the whole file, 35please!) to me at one of the addresses below, so it can be incorporated 36back into the original source. I will normally include anything unless 37there is a good reason not to, but I reserve the right to redo it differently. 38 39 uunet!ucbvax!termcap (uucp) 40 termcap@berkeley.cs.edu (Internet) 41 42<< 14 October 1987 >> 43It is probably easiest to make local termcap changes in separate 44files, eg /usr/local/etc/termcap, and encourage people to put 45 46 setenv TERMPATH ~/.termcap:/usr/local/etc/termcap:/etc/termcap 47 48in their shell startup files. This way local system-wide changes can be 49isolated in /usr/local/etc/termcap and user changes in ~/.termcap, all 50without consuming lots of disk or requiring re-integration of local 51changes when system termcap files change. 52 53 John Kunze 54 termcap@berkeley.cs.edu 55 56