#: 11943 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    25-Aug-91  20:06:45
Sb: #11915-#TOPS Games
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Colin J. Smith 73777,1360 (X)

Your message re getting the TOPS games to work sounded pretty familiar. They
would not work on my system either. So I did a bit of sleuthing.

Most of the TOPS stuff uses a port of curses (called ncurses) which has been
modified to use termcap instead of terminfo. The folks who did the port wrote
their own termcap functions, which are not quite as robust as the microware
ones. The TOPS termcap routine insists that the first name listed in a name
line be two characters long (actually, my reference states that it should be
so...). All you need to do is change the termcap name line from

   vsc!k1!signetics...

to

   k1!vsc!signetic...

Note, the !s should be bars, but I'm typing this off line and I'm not sure what
CIS does with bars.

Guess we should fix all of our termcap entries. The microware stuff will handle
either form, so no problem.

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