Re: Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0

["Gene C. Ruzicka" <gcruzicka at earthlink dot net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael" <bax3@bigfoot.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:48 AM
Subject: Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0


> Hi
>
> I ran into the following problem with the current XFree86 distribution,
but
> could not find any mention of any solution here or elsewhere.
>

it appears i've run into the same problem, or a related one.

i recently had to reinstall cygwin and xfree86 owing to a disk
problem. i did the installation using the new, combined
cygwin-xfree86 package.  after the reinstallation, i got the
following nasty message whenever i invoked tcsh in an rxvt or
an xterm window:

tcsh: No entry for terminal type "xterm"
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.

i think i've been able to band-aid the problem
by creating xterm as a symbolic link to xterm-xfree86
in the /usr/share/terminfo directory, but this doesn't
strike me as a good solution. why wasn't the appropriate
xterm file installed to begin with?

gene