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