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Re: less with b18
- To: Justin Hopkins <hop at elwood dot pionet dot net>
- Subject: Re: less with b18
- From: Alex <garbanzo at hooked dot net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:27:14 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Justin Hopkins wrote:
> At 12:47 AM 9/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >Dear all,
> >
> >I am trying to get less to compile. Is there a curses or termcap library in
> >the b18 distribution? Won't compile without a terminal lib. There has to be
> >something? Should I pull down ncurses and use it instead? If so, any input
> >on what to expect?
>
> You can download termcap-1.3 from prep.ai.mit.edu (ftp) and you should be able
> to compile it without modification. Although you may have to change a few
> references in the configure script to /bin/sh to sh.
>
> This stuff'll give you libtermcap.a to link against. Goodluck.
In my experience (dunno bout everone else) the termcap stuff compiles like
a charm but doesn't work wprth beans. Ncurses works great.
- alex
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