termcap under single luser

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:23:12 -0700, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> Aha, that's great.  We should probably move picobsd's termcap in
>> src/etc and install it as `/etc/termcap.small' by default.  It is
>> only 6 KB and typing
>>
>>     # export TERMCAP='/etc/termcap.small'
>>
>> is far nicer than trying to use vi, failing, and falling back on ed.
>>
>> /me heads off to prepare a patch for review :-)
>
> IMHO failover to /etc/termcap.small should be automatic within ncurses
> library.

On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:50:11 +0300, Alex Kozlov <spam at rm-rf.kiev.ua> wrote:
> Maybe it will be better to add /etc/termcap.small to ncurses search path.

Two people have already suggested this may be useful.  I think we have a
plan :)