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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2002 12:04:22 -0700
From:      Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To:        Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tconv 
Message-ID:  <200205131904.PAA29482@sheffield.cnchost.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 May 2002 12:09:40 CDT." <5.1.0.14.2.20020513120543.00a36110@mail.servplex.com> 

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> # XXX broken:     tconv                  <---- has been broken since at 
> least 4.4...
> # XXX Use GNU versions: apropos bc dc diff grep ld man patch ptx uucp whatis
> # Moved to secure: bdes
> #
> 
> Any idea when this will get fixed?  I need this program.

I ran into the same thing a while ago.

tconv fails because lib/libmytinfo has been retired.  Seems
like there are no plans to bring it back.  There is an
ncurses port in /usr/ports/devel/ncurses but it does not have
tconv.  Also, for FreeBSD version >= 4.0 it won't compile.

As a workaround you can bring libmytinfo back from the dead
and compile tconv as follows (do this as root).

cd /usr/src/lib
cvs up -d libtmyinfo -D'23 November 1999'
cd libmytinfo
make install
cd /usr/src/usr.bin/tconv
make install

This assumes CVSROOT points to a proper CVS repository.
Seems to work on a FreeBSD-4.5 system but I have not done
much testing.

-- bakul

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