tweaking $TERM

[Evan Leibovitch]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> man terminfo is bewilderingly long, but it tells me that a terminfo file
> is assembled by humans and then compiled by the tic command.  The
> problem I have is that I'd like to compare the source files of screen
> and screen-bce, but I don't know where they are, or if I need to get
> them from elsewhere.  Does anyone know?  Thanks.
>   
The `infocmp` command is the de-compiler counterpart to `tic`, maybe it
will do what you want. It includes options explicitly designed to help
show differences and similarities between two compiled terminfo entries.

The compiled files themselves are in /lib/terminfo/first-letter -- the
second level of directories a throwback to the massive diversity of
terminal-drawing protocols that existed in the heydays of Unix.

Hope this helps.

- Evan

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