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Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2
- From: Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>
- To: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 17:21:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2
- References: <20020515210242.94866.qmail@web10501.mail.yahoo.com>
Rick Rankin wrote:
>
> When I compiled the source *with* ncurses, less worked perfectly with
> TERM=nxterm. Is there a reason that the Cygwin binary was compiled without
> ncurses (e.g., minimize package dependencies)?
That's probably the reason. If it doesn't use ncurses, then it probably
uses termcap. So, you can extract the nxterm stuff from the terminfo
database and convert it to termcap format using (I think) 'tic -c'.
Then, just paste that termcap fragment to the end of your /etc/termcap file.
--Chuck
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