9 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersRe: terminfo/termcap and cygwin| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Alex Dupre | Jul 10, 2002 6:48 am | |
| Peter Elsner | Jul 10, 2002 7:18 am | |
| Alex Dupre | Jul 10, 2002 7:31 am | |
| Dan Nelson | Jul 10, 2002 10:16 am | |
| Terry Lambert | Jul 10, 2002 1:22 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Jul 10, 2002 1:25 pm | |
| Cyrille Lefevre | Jul 10, 2002 5:53 pm | |
| Terry Lambert | Jul 11, 2002 2:05 pm | |
| Adrian Filipi-Martin | Jul 17, 2002 8:42 am |
| Subject: | Re: terminfo/termcap and cygwin | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Peter Elsner (pet...@servplex.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 10, 2002 7:18:53 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
cd to /usr/ports/devel/ncurses and edit the Makefile.
Comment out the following 3 lines:
.if ${OSVERSION} >= 400000 FORBIDDEN= already is in the base system .endif
Save the Makefile, and type: make && make install && make clean
Terminfo (including the db's) should now install fine...
At 03:48 PM 7/10/2002 +0200, you 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?
-- Alex Dupre sysa...@alexdupre.com http://www.alexdupre.com/ al...@sm.FreeBSD.org
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