terminfo - untic/tic

[Don Bentz]

I have 2 HP-UX 11.00 systems: (A) was an upgrade from 10.20 (B) was a cold install. I have an entry in /usr/share/lib/terminfo on (A) that I need to get a copy of to (B). I "decompiled" it using untic moved it to (B), then compiled it using "tic". The sizes of the original and the new version are dramatically different. I considered copying the "production" version on (A), then doing another "tic" on with the source to see what the difference would be. I would presume this should be fairly innocuous (unless somebody is getting a copy of it after I do the "tic". I would guess it is accessed only when the terminal session is established?)

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

Hi Don:

Rather than possibly clobbering good version and without having to set environment vars I would do this:
1) untic you 10.20 version and change the terminal name e.g. vt100 to vt999
2) tic the source on 10.20 and see if the size changes
3) tic the source on 11x and see if the size changes
4) test the vt999 vesion on 11x by setting and exporting TERM=vt999

This way you can do no harm and test to your heart's content.

Clay

[Don Bentz]

Why didn't I think of that? Thanks, Clay.