Re: Providing an alternative TERMINFO environment variable

[G. Branden Robinson]

At 2023-11-29T14:50:39-0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> | From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
> | At 2023-11-28T17:14:26+0000, Igor Todorovski wrote:
> |> I have added the below code to enable setting ASCII_TERMINFO. I’m
> not |> sure if the environment variable name is reasonable or not, but
> the |> z/OS system default checks for TERMINFO so I needed a way to
> tell |> ncurses where to pick up tis terminfo db.
> |> 
> |> Is there a better alternative?
> | 
> | Doesn't TERMINFO_DIRS do this job?
> 
> No - $TERMINFO is tested first, and if he has some other
> implementation where he is setting $TERMINFO, there's a conflict.

I see now.  Why not make Igor's proposed environment variable
"TERMINFOPATH", since it would then have semantics like other *PATH
variables (being an override), and _not_ make it conditional on a z/OS
symbol, but applicable everywhere?

Regards,
Branden

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