From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 6:49: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7671F37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:48:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.alexdupre.com (212-41-211-209.adsl.galactica.it [212.41.211.209]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A165943E65 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 06:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@alexdupre.com) Received: from thunder ([192.168.0.101]) by mail.alexdupre.com (MERAK 3.10.011) with ESMTP id F05B6CDE for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:56:18 +0200 Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:48:32 +0200 From: Alex Dupre X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Reply-To: Alex Dupre X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <55271305897.20020710154832@alexdupre.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: terminfo/termcap and cygwin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@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 sysadmin@alexdupre.com http://www.alexdupre.com/ alex@sm.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message