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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:17:01 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Alex Dupre <sysadmin@alexdupre.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: terminfo/termcap and cygwin
Message-ID:  <20020710171701.GA86282@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <55271305897.20020710154832@alexdupre.com>
References:  <55271305897.20020710154832@alexdupre.com>

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In the last episode (Jul 10), Alex Dupre said:
> 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/

For termcap, you should copy the "cygwin" and "linux" entries out of
the /etc/termcap on your cygwin box, and replace the (apparently buggy)
entries in /usr/share/misc/termcap on the FreeBSD box.  Run "cap_mkdb
/usr/share/misc/termcap" when you're done.  That should make FreeBSD
use cygwin's updated termcap entries.  If this fixes your problem, use
send-pr to file a FreeBSD bug on it.  If it doesn't, file a bug with
cygwin, asking them to update their own termcap entry :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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