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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