Another way to make programs TERM aware is to port them yourself. This process will be described in the next subsection. The last way to make your programs TERM -aware is to termify them. At this point the commands should work both with and without TERM . Some TERM commands will be TERM transparent and only use TERM when there is not another option.
Some common examples are telnet and ftp.
Others require an external flag to tell them it is all right to use TERM . These programs include xarchie, fsp and ytalk. Eventually, the 'termnet' file created will contain special networking instructions, but for now only its existence is checked. Programs that were ported back in the days of client.a , can still be recompiled for use with newer versions of TERM simply by changing the client.a reference to libtermnet.a . This package will convert dynamically linked binaries for TERM use.