# Honeywell BTRM726A-001 termcap

	# Honeywell BTRM726A-001 termcap

	Well, I finally did it!!! I have managed to write a termcap that
	mostly works. It runs vim, lynx, and even phetch. Better
	results if you run things within a screen session. There is still
	some glitches.

	For some reason, ncurses issues an up-arrow after clearing the
	screen which causes the cursor to warp around to the bottom of the
	screen. The consequence of that is that whenever you write to 0,1
	or 1,1 it may end up in the wrong place unless you explicitly set
	the cursor position before writing. Using screen seems to get
	around that, I think because it always sets the cursor position,
	and applications running inside of screen only need to worry about
	writing through the 'screen' termcap driver, so it becomes a non-
	issue.

	Filez:

	Here's a picture of what reading fax sex looks like on the
	terminal:

	honeywell_fax_sex.jpg

	Here's the termcap file itself:

	btrm726a.tic

	How to use it:

	Compile this with:

	tic -o /usr/share/terminfo btrm726a.tic

	(obviously /usr/share/terminfo should be wherever your terminfo
	files live. And more obviously, you'll need to run it as root in
	order to write there - but you could also write it to some other
	folder in your home dir as a regular user and export the TERMINFO
	environment variable to whatever that path is, and make it all
	work as a regular non-root user).

	ToDo:

	It's capable of half-bright/normal text (which you could re-use as
	bold/normal or something) and it's got the entire alt charset with
	graphics characters mapped out as well.

	What I have to figure out yet is how to do underlined text,
	inverted video, and blinking text. All things it should be capable
	of if the test screen/demo is anything to go by, but I haven't
	figured out yet what the control characters are.

	Update:

	Turns out you can ignore this termcap :) This terminal is actually
	a vip7800 terminal, and it works just fine with that termcap entry
	- for whatever reason, it doesn't mention that fact anywhere on
	the physical thing!