Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 5/22/85; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.micro.att Subject: Re: 3B2 and 'tset' Message-ID: <1483@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 19:15:41 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.1483 Posted: Sun Sep 15 19:15:41 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 16-Sep-85 03:14:20 EDT References: <167@darth.UUCP> <685@sfmag.UUCP> <6274@duke.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Oh Lines: 25 In article <6274@duke.UUCP> rrt@duke.UUCP (Russell R. Tuck) writes: >This won't immediately help you, but SVR2 on the Unixpc (7300) has a tset. >Does that mean it will show up on the 3Bs in a future release? I don't know. Probably not. I've been pushing for some time for tset or an equivalent program to be put into System V, since I find the system nearly unusable without it. However, tset is an Eric Allman creation, hence it has an incredibly high comment/code ratio, and handles several different variants of UNIX, so it's long and nontrivial, and there are no high level people pushing for it, so the support folks didn't want to support anything that big and said no. It's in the 7300 because Convergent, not being AT&T, put it in. Nonetheless, there are several terminfo capabilities that are intended to be used by tset, such as the init strings. The current direction appears to be that the tabs(1) command is being enhanced to do much of what tset does in this respect. By the way, don't blame Eric for the current version of tset (which may vary depending on where you got your version), as David Wasley and I have done significant work on it at various times. My copy uses terminfo without using any of the emulation features - in particular, the -s option no longer needs to set the TERMCAP variable. Mark