Nekonomicon - Terminal Types

pentium
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Wrote the following at July 29, 2013, 10:29 p.m...

I know when you login from a serial console by default it asks for a terminal type and recommends a VT100. I'm aware that there is more terminal definitions in /usr/lib/terminfo/* but from what I'm seeing so far it's all for AT&T equipment. There's nothing specifically for systems like the ASR43 or LA120 that I can find. Are those just not included?

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PymbleSoftware
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Wrote the following at July 30, 2013, 12:52 a.m...

pentium wrote:

I know when you login from a serial console by default it asks for a terminal type and recommends a VT100. I'm aware that there is more terminal definitions in /usr/lib/terminfo/* but from what I'm seeing so far it's all for AT&T equipment. There's nothing specifically for systems like the ASR43 or LA120 that I can find. Are those just not included?

You could always just roll your own. As people who needed or wanted to have done. Its not a secret closed system.

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duck
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Wrote the following at July 30, 2013, 4:08 a.m...

I had a look in NetBSD's termcap and found this (among many, many other TTYs). Are these what you were looking for? I have no clue about such old gear.

Code:

  tty43|model 43 teletype:\
  
  :am:bs:hc:os:xo:\
  
  :co#132:\
  
  :bl=^G:cr=^M:do=^J:kb=^H:le=^H:sf=^J:
  
  dw3|la120|decwriter III:\
  
  :bs:hc:os:\
  
  :co#132:\
  
  :bl=^G:cr=^M:do=^J:\
  
  :i1=\E(B\E[20l\E[w\E[0;132s\E[2g\E[z\E[66t\E[1;66r\E[4g\E>:\
  
  :is=\E[9;17;25;33;41;49;57;65;73;81;89;97;105;113;121;129u\r:\
  
  :kb=^H:le=^H:me=\E[w:se=\E[w:sf=^J:so=\E[6w:ta=^I:

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pentium
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Wrote the following at July 30, 2013, 10:15 a.m...

PymbleSoftware wrote:

pentium wrote:

I know when you login from a serial console by default it asks for a terminal type and recommends a VT100. I'm aware that there is more terminal definitions in /usr/lib/terminfo/* but from what I'm seeing so far it's all for AT&T equipment. There's nothing specifically for systems like the ASR43 or LA120 that I can find. Are those just not included?

You could always just roll your own. As people who needed or wanted to have done. Its not a secret closed system.

R.

I tried that before with a Televideo terminal and it didn't seem to work.

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SAQ
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Wrote the following at July 30, 2013, 8:56 p.m...

I'm pretty sure IRIX is terminfo instead of termcap.

Try grabbing files from a late-'90s Solaris if IRIX doesn't have them - though I doubt that ASR43 was a common terminal type in the '90s when these systems came out.

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tgc99
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Wrote the following at July 31, 2013, 11:06 a.m...

You can get a very comprehensive collection of terminfo entries from here:
http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#which_terminfo

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duck
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Wrote the following at Aug. 2, 2013, 12:40 p.m...

Ah yes, it's exclusively terminfo. Hadn't expected that, I must not be using my Octane as much as I ougt to. :-/ I was muzzily thinking of a $HOME/.termcap entry. Still, there's apparently a captoinfo(1M) that could be used in a pinch.

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