On 2011-04-11 23:11 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2011-04-11 22:06 +0200, Francisco Aparecido da Silva wrote:
>
>> Hi Sven, so this symlink is not a big problem, but, some aplications, like
>> *Dataflex 3.2 look directly to this point to find ansi file;
>
> Any program who does this is broken. Even if it finds a file under
> /usr/share/terminfo there is no guarantee that it is the one actually
> used by the ncurses library (e.g. you can override it by putting your
> own terminfo files under /etc/terminfo or $HOME/.terminfo). So please
> complain to the vendor of such an application.
It just occured to me that Dataflex and other proprietary programs might
ship their own (old?) ncurses library that is not configured to look
into /lib/terminfo (Debian releases before 4.0 had such versions). In
that case, you can set the TERMINFO or TERMINFO_DIRS environment
variable in the environment before running the program, e.g.
export TERMINFO=/lib/terminfo
Regards,
Sven
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