Thanks for the many responses. Most of you pointed out that terminfo
is an ABSOLUTE requirement to run vi under 4.1.1. I had assumed this
was not the case because, if we put our own tek4107 termcap into
/usr/share/lib/termcap and then ran vi, vi accessed the termcap
file (ls -lu showed the usage date of /usr/share/lib/termcap got
changed), and vi didn't complain about anything missing; it just
proceeded to splatter garbage down the screen.
Upon further investigation, this was apparently due to the fact that
SunOS 4.1.1 supplies a /usr/share/lib/terminfo/t/tek4107 file with
the OS, and that terminfo file doesn't work with any of our 4107/4207
terminals. One respondent noted that he had also had to replace
Sun's tek4107 entry with his own.
So I changed the name of our own 4107 termcap, ran it thru (gag)
captoinfo/tic, and now everyone's happy.
(Surprisingly enough the ex(1) man page on my favorite 4.1.1 system
mentions only /etc/termcap in the FILES section ... /usr/share/lib/terminfo
is not mentioned. Oh well, I guess I should have read all 19 volumes
of the 4.1 FM set to find this out. :-))
Thanks to the following people for taking the time to reply:
Brent Alan Wiese <brent@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu>
Aydin Edguer <edguer@alpha.ces.cwru.edu>
Fuat Baran <fuat@ans.net>
jdavis@noao.edu (Jim Davis)
cameron@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Cameron Humphries)
"Ric Anderson" <ric@cs.arizona.edu>
"Kurt J. Lidl" <lidl@eng.umd.edu>
"Anthony A. Datri" <datri@concave.convex.com>
trinkle@cs.purdue.edu
doug@perry.berkeley.edu (Doug Neuhauser)
Chris.Drake@Corp.Sun.COM (Chris Drake)
birger@vest.sdata.no ( Birger Wathne)
mikulska@ece.UCSD.EDU (Margaret Mikulska)
reynolds@icgmfg.mke.ab.com (Michael D. Reynolds)
John R. Kilheffer <amp19263@garfield.AMP.COM>
drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
long-morrow@CS.YALE.EDU
jhc@ulysses.att.com (Jonathan Clark)
Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
kuhn@zariski.harvard.edu (Robert Kuhn)
stern@sunne.East.Sun.COM (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
Ted Nolan SRI Ft Bragg <ted@usasoc.soc.mil>
mark@isis.Berkeley.EDU (mark kraitchman)
bill@jtsv16.jts.com (Bill McSephney )
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@stout.atd.ucar.EDU>
bchivers@smiley.mitre.org (Brent Chivers)
Gene.Saunders@West.Sun.COM (Gene Saunders - SW Area SE)
jimbo@crseo.csl.ucsb.edu (Jim Davidson)
Sue Bergquist <sueb@vice.ico.tek.com>
mark@maui.Qualcomm.COM (Mark Erikson)
tgsmith@spdev.East.Sun.COM (Timothy G. Smith - Special Projects)
satmb@gauss.med.harvard.EDU (Timothy Baum 432-2765)
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