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That looks a lot like Term::Cap format. Try that module to do the parsing, or search for "termcap" parsers in Perl.

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Re^2: Parsing /etc/remote
by gri6507 (Deacon) on Nov 29, 2005 at 15:28 UTC
    Thanks merlyn, it seems to almost work.
    use strict;
use warnings;
use English;
use Term::Cap;

my $PortName = 'MyPort';
if (scalar(@ARGV)) {
  $PortName = $ARGV[0];
}

$ENV{TERMPATH} = '/etc/remote';
my $terminal = Tgetent Term::Cap { TERM => $PortName, OSPEED => 9600};
print $terminal->Tgoto('dv', "", "",);

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    So, when called with MyPort parameter, it gives me /dev/term/b as expected. However, when called with MyAlias parameter, it does not return anything (but no errors either). What am I missing?

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      Although it doesn't seem to be required by the file format in the examples and man pages I've looked at, if the end of the alias line is terminated with a colon it will work as expected.
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        Unfortunately, the customers' /etc/remote will be as I have outlined above - without a colon. However, after reading the documentation, it seems that I should be able to set the TERMCAP environment variable to account for that, but I cannot seem to figure out how (Correction - to what. Any suggestions?
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