# Honeywell BTRM726A-001 termcap
       
          Well,  I  finally did it!!! I have managed to write a termcap that 
          mostly  works.  It  runs  vim,  lynx,  and  even  phetch.   Better 
          results if you  run things within a screen session. There is still
          some glitches.
       
          For  some  reason, ncurses  issues  an up-arrow after clearing the 
          screen which causes the cursor to warp around to the bottom of the
          screen. The consequence of that is that whenever you write to  0,1
          or  1,1 it may end up in the wrong place unless you explicitly set 
          the cursor position before  writing.  Using  screen seems  to  get 
          around that,  I think because  it always sets the cursor position,
          and applications running inside of screen only need to worry about
          writing through the 'screen' termcap driver,  so it becomes a non-
          issue. 
       
       Filez:
       
          Here's a picture of  what  reading fax sex looks like  on  the
          terminal:
       
 (IMG) honeywell_fax_sex.jpg
       
          Here's the termcap file itself:
       
 (TXT) btrm726a.tic
       
       How to use it:
       
          Compile this with:
       
              tic -o /usr/share/terminfo btrm726a.tic
       
          (obviously /usr/share/terminfo should be  wherever  your  terminfo
           files live. And more obviously, you'll  need to run it as root in
           order to write there - but you could also write it to some  other
           folder in your home dir as a regular user and export the TERMINFO
           environment variable to whatever that path is,  and  make  it all
           work as a regular non-root user).
       
       ToDo:
       
          It's capable of half-bright/normal text (which you could re-use as
          bold/normal or something) and it's got the entire alt charset with
          graphics characters mapped out as well.
       
          What  I  have  to  figure  out  yet  is how to do underlined text, 
          inverted video, and blinking text. All things it should be capable
          of  if  the  test  screen/demo is anything to go by, but I haven't 
          figured out yet what the control characters are.
       
       Update:
       
          Turns out you can ignore this termcap :) This terminal is actually
          a vip7800 terminal, and it works just fine with that termcap entry
          - for whatever reason, it doesn't mention that fact anywhere on
          the physical thing!
       
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