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Computers & Technology

Mui, Linda

O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Programming Languages

O'Reilly Media

While termcap and terminfo are no longer as important as they once were, due to the growth of the X terminal market and increased standardization among ASCII terminals, handling different terminal types can still be a headache for system administrators. The termcap and terminfo databases are UNIX's solution to the difficulty of supporting many terminals without writing special drivers for each terminal. Termcap (BSD) and terminfo (System V) describe the features of hundreds of terminals, together with a library of routines that allow programs to use those capabilities.This book documents hundreds of capabilities and syntax for termcap and terminfo, writing and debugging terminal descriptions, and terminal initialization.Contents include:Terminal independence: the need for termcap and terminfo.Reading termcap and terminfo entries.Capability syntax.Initializing the terminal environment.Writing termcap and terminfo entries.Converting between termcap and terminfo.Detailed descriptions of the capabilities.Screen dimensions and cursor movement.Initialization and reset.Special and equivalent terminals.Many useful appendices.

termcap & terminfo: Help for Unix System Administrators

O'Reilly, Tim

Strang, John

Operating Systems

While termcap and terminfo are no longer as important as they once were, due to the growth of the X terminal market and increased standardization among ASCII terminals, handling different terminal types can still be a headache for system administrators. The termcap and terminfo databases are UNIX's solution to the difficulty of supporting many terminals without writing special drivers for each terminal. Termcap (BSD) and terminfo (System V) describe the features of hundreds of terminals, together with a library of routines that allow programs to use those capabilities.This book documents hundreds of capabilities and syntax for termcap and terminfo, writing and debugging terminal descriptions, and terminal initialization.Contents include:
<ul>
<li>Terminal independence: the need for termcap and terminfo.</li>
<li>Reading termcap and terminfo entries.</li>
<li>Capability syntax.</li>
<li>Initializing the terminal environment.</li>
<li>Writing termcap and terminfo entries.</li>
<li>Converting between termcap and terminfo.</li>
<li>Detailed descriptions of the capabilities.</li>
<li>Screen dimensions and cursor movement.</li>
<li>Initialization and reset.</li>
<li>Special and equivalent terminals.</li>
<li>Many useful appendices.</li>
</ul>

termcap and terminfo: Help for Unix System Administrators

About the Author\nLinda Mui started working for O'Reilly & Associates in 1986. She was first hired as a production assistant, later became an apprentice system administrator, and now is a writer. Her first writing job was for termcap and terminfo, which she co-authored with John Strang and Tim O'Reilly. She also wrote Pick BASIC, on programming applications for Pick systems. In between writing jobs, Linda works on troff macros and tools for the O'Reilly & Associates production staff. Linda was raised in the Bronx, New York and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lately she has been trying to improve herself by learning how to swim, play billiards, and accessorize.

Pick Basic

As X moves out of the hacker's domain and into the "real world," users can't be expected to master all the ins and outs of setting up and administering their own X software. That will increasingly become the domain of system administrators. Even for experienced system administrators, X raises many issues, both because of subtle changes in the standard UNIX way of doing things and because X blurs the boundaries between different platforms. Under X, users can run applications across the network on systems with different resources (including fonts, colors, and screen size). Many of these issues are poorly understood, and the technology for dealing with them is in rapid flux.This book is the first and only book devoted to the issues of system administration for X and X-based networks, written not just for UNIX system administrators but for anyone faced with the job of administering X (including those running X on stand-alone workstations). The book includes:
<ul>
<li>An overview of X that focuses on issues that affect the system administrator's job.</li>
<li>Information on obtaining, compiling, and installing the X software, including a discussion of the trade-offs between vendor-supplied and the free MIT versions of X.</li>
<li>How to set up xdm, the X display manager, which takes the place of the login program under X and can be used to create a customized turnkey X session for each user.</li>
<li>How to set up user accounts under X (includes a comparison of the familiar shell setup files and programs to the new mechanisms provided by X).</li>
<li>Issues involved in making X more secure. X's security features are not strong, but an understanding of what features are available can be very important, since X makes it possible for users to intrude on each other in new and sometimes unexpected ways.</li>
<li>How fonts are used by X, including a description of the font server.</li>
<li>A discussion of the issues raised by running X on heterogenous networks.</li>
<li>How colors are managed under X and how to get the same colors across multiple devices with different hardware characteristics.</li>
<li>The administration issues involved in setting up and managing an X terminal.</li>
<li>How to use PC and Mac X servers to maximize reuse of existing hardware and convert outdated hardware into X terminals.</li>
<li>How to obtain and install additional public domain software and patches for X.</li>
<li>Covers features new in R5, including the font server and Xcms.</li>
</ul>

X Windows System Administrator's Guide, Vol 8

Pearce, Eric

X User Tools provides for X users what UNIX Power Tools provides for UNIX users: hundreds of tips, tricks, scripts, techniques, and programs that make the X Window System more enjoyable, more powerful, and easier to use.The emphasis in X User Tools is on useful programs, culled from the network and contributed by X programmers all over the world. The programs range from fun (games, screensavers, and a variety of online clocks) to business tools (calendar, memo, and mailer programs) to graphics (programs for drawing, displaying, and converting images).The book contains a number of tips and techniques for configuring individual and systemwide environments.This book employs the browser style of organization pioneered byUNIX Power Tools. Each article stands on its own and many contain cross-references to related articles. Readers can read the book straight through from cover to cover, but most readers will skip around in the book, reading only the articles that appeal to them. If they discover after reading an article that they want more information on a topic, they can follow the cross-references to other articles that cover particular subjects in more depth.The book contains a glossary of common X and UNIX terms.A CD-ROM containing source files for all and binary files for some of the programs (for a number of platforms, including Sun 4, Solaris, HP 700, Alpha/OSF, and RS6000/AIX) is included with the book. Note that the CD-ROM contains the software for both emacs and tcl/tk.

X User Tools

Quercia, Valerie

X Window System Administrator's Guide

If you use UNIX, you know that it can be a technically challenging environment. And if you're like most users, you have a job to do aside from exploring your operating system -- like analyzing that hot new stock, running another experiment, or typesetting another report.What happens when you have problems? What happens when the system slows to a crawl, when you can't get logged back in after a power failure, or when you've sent a file to the printer three times but have yet to find a printout?Your first choice for handling a problem might be to have the problem never occur. Your second choice might be to have someone else fix it, immediately. However, in the real world, sometimes you will have to investigate the problem and report it, and sometimes you will have to find an answer yourself.When You Can't Find Your UNIX System Administrator, part of our new What You Need to Know series, gives UNIX users tools for solving problems. It offers:
<ul>
<li> Practical solutions for problems you're likely to encounter in logging in, running programs, sharing files, managing space resources, printing, and so on</li>
<li> Just enough background on what's going on "behind the scenes" so that you can make sense of our suggestions, rather than simply memorizing keystrokes</li>
<li> An explanation of how to present problems to your sys admin so that you're more likely to get quick, accurate support</li>
<li> A list of the site-specific information to which you should have access, and a place to write it down</li>
<li> A quick-ref card summarizing what to try first, second, third for commonly encountered problems</li>
</ul>The goal of this book is not to make you a guru in your own right. The goal of this book is to get you back to the job you'd rather be doing.

WYNTK: UNIX System Admininistrator

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