gumkowsk@nadc.arpa (D. Gumkowski) (04/07/89)
A (hopefully) quick question about the "vt200-w" termcap entry. When users
try: set term=vt200-w
tset
the users get "Termcap entry too long" and then a segmentation fault. We
run a pretty vanilla Berkeley UNIX 4.3. Our termcap.c (Berkeley version
5.1 06/05/85) shows a buffer limit of 1024 so I am assuming the "vt200-w"
(vt200 works by the way) has passed the limit. Our termcap.src (Berkeley
version 5.28 06/07/86) shows the vt200-? stuff was "From: Bracy H. Elton
<elton@lll-crg>".
Questions: 1)Do we have the most recent version of the termcap stuff?
2)Should I remove capability from the "vt200-w" to make it
fit into 1024 limit?
3)Should I increase the buffer limit or is that too superficial
a change?
Thank-you for any help.
Dave Gumkowski <gumkowsk@nadc.arpa>gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) (04/08/89)
In article <19028@adm.BRL.MIL> gumkowsk@nadc.arpa (D. Gumkowski) writes: >Questions: 1)Do we have the most recent version of the termcap stuff? The 4.3BSD libtermlib is about par for this issue. It really doesn't do a lot.. > 2)Should I remove capability from the "vt200-w" to make it > fit into 1024 limit? Yes. Note that the 1024-character limit includes all the entries reference via "tc=", and if you manually consolidate the references into a separate "vt200-w" entry it might be under 1024 characters. > 3)Should I increase the buffer limit or is that too superficial > a change? I'm afraid the 1024-character limit is wired into too many applications. This should be considered a "hard limit" on termcap.