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?

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