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From: Bryan Ogawa at Work <bogawa@netvoyage.net>
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Subject: Re: terminfo?
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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, matthew c. mead wrote:

>     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:

Yes.  slang and jed both are wanting terminfos.

To fix this, look for the NeXT entries, which are termcap only, or get 
and install the terminfo stuff.  (I believe that ncurses has this with it.)

I've done the former... I don't remember the particulars of it.

bryan

> 
> Unknown terminal: xterm
> Check the TERM environment variable.
> Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Matthew C. Mead
> 
> mmead@Glock.COM
> http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/
> 

Bryan K. Ogawa
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