From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 18 18:34:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12262 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:34:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gstring.xamor.com (www.xamor.com [206.250.193.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12176 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matthew@wolfepub.com) Received: from dimension (grxa6-ppp1.triton.net [209.172.4.1]) by gstring.xamor.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA22564 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:41:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980118212901.006a7da8@wolfepub.com> X-Sender: matthew@wolfepub.com (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 21:29:01 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Matthew Hagerty Subject: NCurses and cons25 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Greetings, I am trying to use NCurses-4.1 under FreeBSD 2.2.5 running on a 486. The package compiled fine, but when I try to run *any* of the test programs that come with the package, I get to following error: Error opening terminal: cons25 I have had very little luck finding much information on using or configuring curses or ncurses. Also, I can't seem to find any information on how to set a terminal type. Is there anything special about cons25 that makes it a better choice for the console than say some VTxxx terminal type? I'm writing several programs in which I need full screen, color, cursor, and key control. The programs will always be run from a console in 80X25. Last, if this is getting posted to a list, how can I get on it? Thank you, Matthew Hagerty wpub1@net-link.net