Bug#593920: ncurses-bin: infotocap not working

2010-08-25 Thread Alain Greppin
Thomas Dickey wrote: It's clear if one realizes that a terminal description is a "terminfo source". But confusion on this detail has been longstanding, and not limited to infotocap. I've also seen people attempting to run tic on files in the terminal database. Thanks guys, I now found what

Bug#593920: ncurses-bin: infotocap not working

2010-08-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-08-22 12:45 +0200, Alain Greppin wrote: Package: ncurses-bin Version: 5.7+20081213-1 Severity: normal example follows: $ infotocap /lib/terminfo/v/vt100 "/lib/terminfo/v/vt100", line 1, col 1: Illegal character (expected alphanumeric or @%&*!#)

Bug#593920: ncurses-bin: infotocap not working

2010-08-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Alain Greppin wrote: Package: ncurses-bin Version: 5.7+20081213-1 Severity: normal example follows: $ infotocap /lib/terminfo/v/vt100 "/lib/terminfo/v/vt100", line 1, col 1: Illegal character (expected alphanumeric or @%&*!#) - '^Z' man infotocap infotocap looks i

Bug#593920: ncurses-bin: infotocap not working

2010-08-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-22 12:45 +0200, Alain Greppin wrote: > Package: ncurses-bin > Version: 5.7+20081213-1 > Severity: normal > > example follows: > $ infotocap /lib/terminfo/v/vt100 > "/lib/terminfo/v/vt100", line 1, col 1: Illegal character (expected > alphanumeric or @%&*!#) - '^Z' Like tic, infotocap o

Bug#593920: ncurses-bin: infotocap not working

2010-08-22 Thread Alain Greppin
Package: ncurses-bin Version: 5.7+20081213-1 Severity: normal example follows: $ infotocap /lib/terminfo/v/vt100 "/lib/terminfo/v/vt100", line 1, col 1: Illegal character (expected alphanumeric or @%&*!#) - '^Z' -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700,