You can add the entry for the vb capability in your own termcap file.
Dennis Henriksen (duke@diku.dk) suggested to insert the following line in the
termcap entry for console:
:vb=\E7\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E[?5h\E[?5l\E8:\
The trailing backslash is used to escape the newline in the database.
Dennis' code does the following (his own words):
Some warnings about modifying termcap:
TERM variable looks like: it used to be
"console", but it depends on your distribution and kernel version.
Actually, it is due to change to "linux".vb field is already there, distributors are
reading docs and upgrading their software all the time.termcap but the terminfo database.
They won't sense your vb entry. Terminfo is more powerful than termcap,
as well as more difficult.