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Still supported by the terminfo db! If you ever use that to access a linux machine, do an export TERM=tvi950 and your TUI apps should be fine. Unicode support not included, sadly.

Edit: As shown in the video after minute 28

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I would be surprised if anything has ever been removed from terminfo. Thomas Dickey is doing God's work.

I only hope / imagine he has a warehouse of green screen terminals!

also if you have tui apps that don't use terminfo, you can run them inside screen or i think tmux; screen uses terminfo to display the vt100 it emulates

i found this useful with my adm3a emulator

Precisely what happens in the fine video, but it causes other problems in this case.

oops, you caught me

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