From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 06:23:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA21315 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA21246 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:22:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id PAA12544; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 15:22:18 +0100 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (OAA03593); Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:59:29 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199602271459.OAA03593@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: terminfo? To: mmead@Glock.COM (matthew c. mead) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:59:29 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602270153.UAA16181@Glock.COM> from "matthew c. mead" at Feb 26, 96 08:53:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > I've been trying to get jed going, but it uses terminfos... does anyone > know how to set these up? I keep getting this error message when I try to run > jed: > > Unknown terminal: xterm > Check the TERM environment variable. > Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database. > You have to convert the termcap file to a terminfo binary. man tconv , or use: tconv -c -B /etc/termcap (of course, as root) -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky