                                                 26.12.1998, Zlin, Czech Rep.

   Hi all!

this is my 7th compilation of termcap and terminfo databases. It was created
to explore full power of the MiNTOS virtual consoles v0.9a (by Juergen Lock)
and the new TosWin II v2.4 (by Christian Felsch). The termcap and terminfo
databases allow you to run many fullscreen applications that were ported from
other Unices (for example Midnight Commander, PARCP, some games, editors etc)

Terminal emulations:
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- stv52   (standard virtual consoles emulation, similar to st52 but enhanced)
- stv52pc (same as stv52 but with semigraphics characters)
- tw52    (TosWin's original emulation, similar to st52 but enhanced)
- tw100   (TosWin II's vt100 emulation)
- vt52    (just like tw52)
- vt100   (just like tw100)

Features:
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- working arrow keys (up, down, left, right)
- page up/down keys (actually shifted arrow keys up/down)
- special Atari keys like Help, Undo, Insert, Delete and Clr/Home
- all twenty function keys (F1 thru F10, F11 - F20 are shifted F1-F10)
- Bold, Dim (half-bright), Underline and Reverse font
- Italic font (virtual consoles v0.9 and higher)
- TosWin II's wt52/vt52 colors (16 colors, compatible with TOS's VT52 emulator)
- TosWin II's wt100/vt100 colors (8 colors, compatible with ANSI definition)
- TosWin II's wt100/vt100 semigraphics characters (27 special chars)
- vconsoles PC semigraphics characters (TERM=stv52pc)

History of changes:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7th release: - fixed problem of clrbol (clear to begin of line) in tw100
             - vt52 and vt100 emulations added (you need TosWin 2.4+)

6th release: - fixed problem of pico/pine in TosWin
             - added Dim font support to tw52

5th release: - added stv52pc (semigraphics characters) to vcons v0.9a

4th release: - added Dim and Italic support to vconsoles v0.9

Please note that the color emulation is correct only with TosWin version
higher than 2.0 and only when the provided terminfo files are installed.

Also note that semigraphics characters are OK only when you download
a proper GDOS font into vconsoles and set TERM=stv52pc.

The vt52/vt100 emulations were added in TosWin 2.4 (actually they weren't
added but the old tw52/tw100 were RENAMED to vt52/vt100). This will allow
you to use fullscreen applications (like e.g. Pine) over telnet connection.

Installation:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Termcap database is usually found in /etc/ directory. Terminfo database can
be placed almost anywhere but programs compiled with my port of ncurses search
for the terminfo in /usr/local/share/terminfo directory (that's why I suggest
to install it there). So the directory structure should be like this:

/etc/
     termcap
/usr/local/share/terminfo/
                          src/
                              all source files (normally not needed)
                          s/
                            stv52
                            stv52c
                          t/
                            tw100
                            tw52
                          v/
                            vt100
                            vt52

Please note that /etc and /usr are directories on your U: drive (they are
just links to real directories somewhere on your drive - see MINT.CNF).

If you install the files somewhere else you will have to set the following
two environment variables (in one of your start-up scripts, say in MINT.CNF,
N_AES.CNF or some of the shell's config files that are read at startup, for
example in /etc/profile if you use bash as your default shell):

TERMCAP=/etc/termcap
TERMINFO=/usr/local/share/terminfo

(change the paths in above example to the paths you used)

For other informations/files/updates please visit my WWW page at

http://users.zln.cz/~stehlik/

Enjoy, Petr

Internet e-mail: stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz, pstehlik@zln.cz
