conf/71549: /etc/termcap missing passthrough printing entries for VT100 and workalikes

Andrew Webster andrew at pubnix.net
Thu Sep 9 19:30:25 PDT 2004


>Number:         71549
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       /etc/termcap missing passthrough printing entries for VT100 and workalikes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 10 02:30:24 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Webster
>Release:        4.10-RELEASE-p2
>Organization:
PubNIX Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD guardian.fortress.org 4.10-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 #0: Tue Aug 17 08:05:48 EDT 2004     andrew at dev.fortress.org:/mnt/obj.4.10/mnt/src.4.10/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
VT100 spec indicates that passthrough printing can be enabled by sending ESC[5i and disabled by sending ESC[4i
These entries should be listed as po and pf in /etc/termcap, but are absent.  
See http://www.vt100.net/docs/vt102-ug/chapter5.html#S5.5.2.23    
  
Problem also appears in FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A      
>Fix:
Add the following entries to /etc/termcap for vt100 and workalikes:
:po=\E[5i:pf=\E[4i:\ 
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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