I tried as you suggested, with export TERM=xterm and now mc works as normal. interesting. Should a bug report be filed against something?
Thanks! Todd On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * "Todd" == Todd Suess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Todd> Already running 5.0-4. This is the strace output, if it helps at all. > > open("/usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-color", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT > (No such file or directory) > > open("/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No > such file or directory) > > Hmm. I only have /etc/terminfo/x/xterm-color > > Maybe it is missing in ncurses-base. > > Can you try export TERM=xterm and try again? This fits to the other > report in -user, that mc works on a VX (TERM=linux), but not in X. > > Ciao, > Martin