11-03-2018
Grandpa returning to UNIX
On the late 1960s I got short hands on experience with a russian "small" computer. It vas a copy of DEC's VAX ... and running some version of BSD-Unix. After that I worked in a university following the development of computing. After retire I started collecting old pc's and installing Linux-distributions to them. I like using terminal to do simple tasks as for ex. uppdating programs.
Now in the LINUX MAGAZINE March 2018 I found a dvd containing NetBSD 7.1.1. wich I installed or tried to do that. Everything seemed to go well except that while trying to get connected to Internet using 4G-wireles the installer did not find the DNS-server. Anycase I was able to login to the terminal. And I know that advice can be foundd, for ex.NetBSD Documentation.
But some questions are still open in my mind. There are still some strategic questions. What about some other variants of BSD as Free- Open- PC-
What would you recommend for a grandpa age 84
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TERMCAP(3) BSD Library Functions Manual TERMCAP(3)
NAME
tgetent, tgetnum, tgetflag, tgetstr, tgoto, tputs -- terminal independent operation routines
LIBRARY
Termcap Access Library (libtermcap, -ltermcap)
SYNOPSIS
#include <termcap.h>
char PC;
char *BC;
char *UP;
int
tgetent(char *bp, const char *name);
int
tgetnum(const char *id);
int
tgetflag(const char *id);
char *
tgetstr(const char *id, char **area);
char *
tgoto(const char *cm, int destcol, int destline);
DESCRIPTION
These functions extract and use capabilities from a terminal capability database. They exist as wrappers around equivalent terminfo(3) func-
tions, which new code should use. These are low level routines; see curses(3) for a higher level package.
The tgetent() function calls setupterm() and configures PC, UP and BC. Only PC is actually used internally. The tgetent() function returns
-1 if none of the terminfo data base files could be opened, 0 if the terminal name given does not match an entry, and 1 if all goes well.
The bp argument is not used.
The tgetnum() function gets the numeric value of the capability id, returning -1 if it is not given for the terminal. The tgetflag() func-
tion returns 1 if the specified capability is present in the terminal's entry, 0 if it is not. The tgetstr() function returns the string
value of the capability id. This is a terminfo(5) string and not a termcap string; as such it should only be processed by tgoto(). The
tgetstr() function returns NULL if the capability was not found. The area argument is unused.
The tgoto() function returns a cursor addressing string decoded from cm to go to column destcol in line destline, or NULL on error conditions
such as out of memory. Please note that tgoto() can return an incomplete value on a malformed input sequence. Historically tgoto() used to
return ``OOPS'' on those conditions, so newer programs should now be checking the return value.
SEE ALSO
terminfo(3), terminfo(5)
HISTORY
termcap first appeared in 4.0BSD. NetBSD 1.5 introduced some termcap t_*() extensions which were removed in NetBSD 6.0 when terminfo(3) was
introduced.
AUTHORS
Roy Marples <roy@NetBSD.org>
BSD
March 14, 2011 BSD