d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) (02/01/91)
Re infocmp:
It seems that A/UX 2.0 misses this essential tool for decompiling
terminfo databases. Nor does "untic" exist. I hope this failing is
remedied in 2.0.1, and wonder where I can get the tool meanwhile.
(I don't look forward to transferring the compiled entry to another
machine and try to get anything reasonable out of it...)
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d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes: >It seems that A/UX 2.0 misses this essential tool for decompiling >terminfo databases. Nor does "untic" exist. I hope this failing is >remedied in 2.0.1, and wonder where I can get the tool meanwhile. >(I don't look forward to transferring the compiled entry to another >machine and try to get anything reasonable out of it...) Since the "compiled" terminfo is not architecture-dependent, you could certainly move the entry to a system which includes infocmp. The source *is* available on the UNIX System Toolchest, but it'll cost a few bucks. ----------- uunet!media!ka3ovk!raysnec!shwake shwake@rsxtech
domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) (02/05/91)
In article <1991Jan31.173912.21579@nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes: > > Re infocmp: > > It seems that A/UX 2.0 misses this essential tool for decompiling > terminfo databases. Nor does "untic" exist. This is a result of A/UX 2.0 still being based on a very old (highly stable, in marketing terms) AT&T release of UNIX: System V, release 2. Release 3.0 brought infocmp and untic as complements to tic, along with other Good Stuff, such as Honey Danber UUCP. While A/UX has about the lowest rough edge count of any 5.2 implementation I've met, a) by now it's mot unreasonable to expect that the rough edges have been rubbed off AT&T's five-year old source code; and b) I want my 5.3 (at least). > [I] wonder where I can get the tool meanwhile. Way back in volume 5 of comp.std.unix (early 1986), there is an untic. You should be able to get the source off some archive somewhere. I did so in a previous life, and although the source didn't follow me into this one, I recall that it worked as billed. > (I don't look forward to transferring the compiled entry to another > machine and try to get anything reasonable out of it...) Well, it should work. To quote term(4) The [compiled terminfo] format has been chosen so that it will be the same on all hardware. An 8 or more bit byte is assumed, but no assumptions about byte ordering or sign extension are made. You also need to look at this man page if you want to write untic yourself... -- Dominic Dunlop
liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) (02/06/91)
In <1991Feb4.165347.8462@tsa.co.uk> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes: >> (I don't look forward to transferring the compiled entry to another >> machine and try to get anything reasonable out of it...) >Well, it should work. To quote term(4) > The [compiled terminfo] format has been chosen so that it > will be the same on all hardware. An 8 or more bit byte is > assumed, but no assumptions about byte ordering or sign > extension are made. It really does work: the A/UX 2.0 terminfo files work unmodified on SUn3 and Sun4 machines. -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk Queen Mary & Westfield College UUCP: liam@qmw-cs.UUCP Mile End Road AppleLink: UK0087 LONDON, E1 4NS, UK Tel: 071-975 5250 (Fax: 081-980 6533)