VMS/IRAF Installation and Site Manager's Guide

5.4. [IRAF.DEV]TERMCAP

There must be entries in this file for all video terminal, graphics terminal, and printer devices you wish to access from IRAF. The printer is easy, since the "vmsprint" entry provided should work on any VMS system. To prepare entries for other devices, simply copy the vmsprint entry and change the queue name from SYS$PRINT to the name of the queue for the new printer.^* Any number of these entries may be placed in the termcap file, and there can be multiple entries or aliases for each device. If you have a new terminal which has no entry in the termcap file provided, a new entry will have to be added. Termcap is widely used, so it is highly likely that someone somewhere will already have written a termcap entry for your terminal. If the terminal in question is a graphics terminal with a device entry in the graphcap file, you should add a `:gd' capability to the termcap entry. If the graphcap entry has a different name from the termcap entry, make it `:gd=gname'. Local additions should be placed at the top of the file to make it easier to merge the changes into a future IRAF release.

^*If the printer or plotter device is on a remote node which is not clustered with the local node but which is accessible remotely, IRAF networking must be used to access the remote device. IRAF networking is also frequently used to access devices on non-VMS (e.g., UNIX) nodes.