From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 28 06:11:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA10494 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 06:11:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from public.wintek.com (public.wintek.com [199.233.104.88]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA10488 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 06:11:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from watson.grauel.com (watson.grauel.com [199.233.104.36]) by public.wintek.com (8.6.12/1.19wintek(3.6davy)) with ESMTP id JAA09943; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:11:39 -0500 Received: from sparcmill.grauel.com (sparcmill.grauel.com [199.233.104.34]) by watson.grauel.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA02113; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:18:08 -0500 Received: by sparcmill.grauel.com (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA04180; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:11:56 +0500 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 09:11:56 +0500 Message-Id: <9602281411.AA04180@sparcmill.grauel.com> From: Richard J Kuhns To: Bryan Ogawa at Work Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminfo? In-Reply-To: References: <199602270153.UAA16181@Glock.COM> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Bryan Ogawa at Work writes: > 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.) > One of the first things I do on a new installation is to add terminfo support. Just cd into /usr/src/lib/libmytinfo, edit config.h, change the '#undef TERMINFO' to '#define TERMINFO', make, make install. libmytinfo will now support both termcap and terminfo. My third try: whose arm to I have to twist to make this change the default? I've found nothing that it breaks, and it has several benefits. -- Rich Kuhns rjk@grauel.com PO Box 6249 100 Sawmill Road Lafayette, IN 47903 (317)477-6000 x319