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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:12:01 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: NCurses and cons25
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 09:29:01PM -0500, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>    I am trying to use NCurses-4.1 under FreeBSD 2.2.5 running on a
>    486.

Does this buy you anything?  I thought our implementation was based on
ncurses.

> 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.

Depending on your shell, do:

(Bourne shell and friends)

  $ TERM=cons25; export TERM

(C shell and friends, I think)

  % setenv TERM=cons25 

> Is there anything special about cons25 that makes it a better choice
> for the console than say some VTxxx terminal type?

Yes.  It describes the terminal you're using :-)

> 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.

OK.  cons25 can do colour.  Just grab the definition from
/usr/share/misc/termcap and put it in the termcap file you're using.

>    Last, if this is getting posted to a list, how can I get on it?

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Greg