custom-ti-0.0.1
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INTRO:
custom-ti is a compilation of things that allows to run different kind
of Unix console proggies on your Amiga without problems.
The default terminfo/termcap entries that comes with 'termcap' or 'ncurses'
arent very nice, there are often visual or keymap incompatibilies,
so i made 'iris-mono' and 'iris-color' entries for both, termcap
and terminfo based proggies - based upon 'iris-ansi'.
The terminal i have chosen seems to be well suited for Amiga,
however function and cursor keys are in Unix compatibility mode,
but that is not a problem since there are keymaps.
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INSTALLATION:
Do these only if you dont have 'gg:' in your system:
cd custom-ti-0.0.1
makedir sys:gg sys:gg/etc sys:gg/usr sys:gg/usr/local sys:gg/usr/local/share
makedir sys:gg/usr/local/share/terminfo sys:gg/usr/local/share/terminfo/a
makedir sys:gg/usr/local/share/terminfo/i
assign gg: sys:gg
assign etc: gg:etc
assign usr: gg:usr
And add these to your 'startup-sequence':
assign gg: sys:gg
assign etc: gg:etc
assign usr: gg:usr
set TERM amiga-fb
Now just copy:
copy etc/ etc:
copy usr/local/share/terminfo/ usr:local/share/terminfo/
copy c/ c:
copy devs/keymaps/ devs:keymaps/
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EXAMPLE:
There are programs that do not like 'amiga*' terminfo/termcap entries,
they will be dumping garbage in most cases plus as a bonus they will be
interpreting keypresses incorectly.. In such cases do these(suppose your
proggy is 'consolequacks'):
- rename it to 'consolequacks.exec'
- copy 'wrapper' to 'c:' as 'consolequacks' and edit that file:
- (-) go to line 17 and specify new default options for the program
- (-) go to line 27 and specify the default terminfo entry
- (*) go to line 39 and enter new default home path
- (*) go to line 51 and enter the name of the proggy,
in our case 'consolequacks.exec'
- type in the shell: 'protect consolequacks +s' and run that script
like it would be executable.
template: consolequacks [OPTIONS] [TERM] [HOME]
ex1: consolequacks "-a -b -c" amiga-f /home/sweet/home
ex2: consolequacks term=amiga-f
ex3: consolequacks home=/ram
(-) not required
(*) a must!
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