termcap - (nf)

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uiuccsb!grunwald    Apr  5 08:54:00 1984

   You can set the shell variable "TERMCAP" to the string you want to use.
Programs using the TERMCAP routines check this variable before accessing
/etc/termcap.

For a specific terminal type, you can retrieve your termcap information by
doing "tset -S". This will print your termcap entry to stdout.

Thus, in the CSH, to set your TERMCAP variable (and thus cut down on a
file access every time you do a "more" or "vi"), do the following:

setenv TERMCAP "`tset -SQ`"

See TERMCAP in section (5) of the UNIX programmers manual for more info.