Fabrizio Polacco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Both TERMCAP and TERMINFO are unset. Setting TERMINFO to > > /usr/lib/terminfo doesn't help either. So, IMHO, the Debian ncurses > > package is broken. > > > What kind of test did you do to say that?
Perhaps not ncurses itself, but something is wrong somewhere. Several programs such as "vim" (3.0-5), "joe"/"jmacs" (2.8-4) complain about a missing termcap entries (e.g. when I set TERM=amiga). I did not have "termcap-compat" installed, since it mentions: --8<----------------------------------------------------------------------- You do not need to install this package to run Debian-packaged programs since Debian Linux uses terminfo and not termcap. You need this package if a program fails to run with the following error message "...: can't load library 'libtermcap.so.2'" or complains about a missing /etc/termcap file. --8<----------------------------------------------------------------------- So, IMHO, the above text needs to be changed (since both vim and joe are Debian-packaged programs) or these packages should require/suggest termcap-compat. > I re-read your first message and noticed that you refere to > "Amiga terminal emulation" > ncurses and terminfo are not for terminal emulation, on the contrary > they allow a terminal (for example an amiga running a terminal emulator) > to log in the host and run curses applications. That's exactly what I am doing: logging in from the Amiga to the Linux box, running Emacs. -- Raymond Penners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
