From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 10 18:40:28 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 CC12437B400 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:40:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.noos.fr (verlaine.noos.net [212.198.2.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A414343E31 for ; Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:40:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (qmail 28642267 invoked by uid 0); 11 Jul 2002 01:20:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.153]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.73 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Jul 2002 01:20:27 -0000 Received: from gits.gits.dyndns.org (e2epfxapzitoueop@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6B1KCTP083194; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:20:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root@gits.dyndns.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.gits.dyndns.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6B0rfdI082892; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:53:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from root) Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 02:53:41 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre To: Alex Dupre , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminfo/termcap and cygwin Message-ID: <20020711005340.GH82744@gits.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: Cyrille Lefevre , Alex Dupre , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <55271305897.20020710154832@alexdupre.com> <20020710234509.GB77112@gits.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020710234509.GB77112@gits.dyndns.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: ACME X-Face: V|+c;4!|B?E%BE^{E6);aI.[< List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG message resent due to mta misconfigation. On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:45:09AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:48:32PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote: > > 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? > > take a look at the following PRs : > > giant termcap database update > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/30812 > > installing curses programs and terminfo database > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/38168 Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message