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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
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Subject: Re: 3B2 and 'tset'
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 19:15:41 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 19:15:41 1985
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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