Re: top - uknown terminal type

[Chris Cormie <cjcormie at gmail dot com>]

Egerton, Jim wrote:
> Works fine after running /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh.
>
> thanks Chuck/Christopher,
> jim
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm] 
> > Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:54 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: top - uknown terminal type
> >
> > Egerton, Jim wrote:
> > > top gives me 'cygwin': unknown terminal type with a fresh 
> > 1.7 install on server 2008.   Any ideas what I am missing?
> >
> > Well, top uses:
> > > libncurses8          5.5-10              OK
> > which needs the "old-style" terminfo database in
> > > terminfo0            5.5_20061104-10     OK
> > which you have. I'd try to re-run
> >    /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh.done
> > and try again.

I wonder if this problem is the same one other people had with "vim"
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00682.html

Sure sounds the same. I wonder if Chuck/Christopher's solution would 
also work for them? It sounds better than the previous workaround, which 
was to revert to an earlier version of terminfo0.

Cheers,
Chris

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