From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 24 7:30:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alexdupre.com (212-41-211-209.adsl.galactica.it [212.41.211.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419E637B405 for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 07:30:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alexdupre.com ([192.168.0.101]) by mail.alexdupre.com (MERAK 3.10.011) with ESMTP id F05B6CDE for ; Fri, 24 May 2002 16:36:01 +0200 Message-ID: <3CEE4E78.4000500@alexdupre.com> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 16:30:16 +0200 From: Alex Dupre User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020522 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: terminfo/termcap and cygwin Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In normal situation accessing to a FreeBSD 4.x machine from cygwin is not very pleasant: editing files is quite a pain, there are many terminal "glitches" like the cursor in the wrong position and garbage text. A trick to resolve this issue is to copy the binary cygwin terminfo file in /usr/share/misc/terminfo/c/ Since FreeBSD 4.0 ncurses libs are included in the base system, but terminfo db (and utils) are not installed (while the port for freebsd < 4 installed them). I read that FreeBSD uses termcap rather than terminfo, but either the included cygwin entry or the terminfo-generated one don't work correctly. So the binary terminfo seems to be the only solution (and termcap seems to be not so powerful). My question is: should terminfo database be installed (manually or by make/installworld) or is there a better fix? Alex Dupre P.S.: CC to me, as I'm not subscribed to the list. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message