Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: more startup time Message-ID: <1665@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 21:42:01 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.1665 Posted: Sun Feb 5 21:42:01 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 07:02:13 EST References: <16151@sri-arpa.UUCP> <439@sun.uucp> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 13 > If you use tset to set the TERMCAP environment variable to the termcap > entry for your terminal, no program will ever have to read a file to get it. > This speeds up more, vi, emacs, etc quite a bit. Look in tset(1) for > the "-s" option. I don't know if this works on Bell Unixes. "tset" doesn't exist on vanilla Bell UNIXes, but the "termcap" supplied with System V is the same "termcap" that comes with Berkeley systems, so you can set TERMCAP. Using "tset", if available, is preferable to getting a copy of "/etc/termcap" and pulling the entry out of there, because if the entry in "/etc/termcap" changes you want your entry to reflect it. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy