Re: terminfo => terminfo ?

[Thomas Dickey]

The mailing list was broken last weekend (fixed now, but it lost your
requests, so I'm replying directly).

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 07:05:16PM -0500, Christopher Curtis wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Apologies for abusing bug-@, but I couldn't find a more appropriate 
> address ... I am seeking software that may or may not exist.  The 
> problem I have is that I need to log into a box that only spits out 
> Wyse60 codes.  I immediately thought "I'll just set $TERM to wy60" and 
> then almost as immediately recognized my folly.  I need an *emulator*. 
> I downloaded /the/ Wyse60 emulator (there appears to be only one for 
> GNU/Linux) and it was better, but insufficient.
> 
> Isn't there a program that will just read $REMOTE_TERM terminfo 
> sequences and translate them into $TERM sequences?  I looked at the 
> binaries Debian ships with ncurses{-base,-bin} and searched google for 
> insight, but none was to be found.  :(

I've seen a few reports but only for alpha-quality code (the most recent
was a sourceforge project which essentially assumes everything is a clone
of xterm ;-)
 
> Thanks for any pointers or sound beatings for my naivety,
> Chris
> 
> 
> 

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