Bug#1800: missing terminfo keydefs

1995-11-04 Thread Bill Mitchell
package: ncurses-runtime version: 1.9.4-0 I'm no ncurses or terminfo expert, but I've been trying to get ae working with terminfo in anticipation of the junking of termcap, and I've run into some missing key definition problems for TERM=linux. I've looked at the terminfo source in an earlier ver

Re: ELF conversion

1995-11-04 Thread Ian Jackson
David Engel writes ("Re: ELF conversion"): > > > > Yuk. Why can't we use a sensible location, such as /usr/lib/a.out/* > > > > (and /usr/bin/a.out/* if we need it) ? See what the FSSTND has to say > > > > about things that think they need a directory right under /usr. > > > > > > Because $prefix

Bug#1801: tar manpage missing

1995-11-04 Thread Austin Donnelly
I know the business of manpages for GNU software is a religious issue, but tar seems to be missing one. A number of different linux systems have manpages for GNU tar, although the tar package doesn't contain one as such. Could a manpage be maintained separately ? Austin

Bug#1801: tar manpage missing

1995-11-04 Thread Susan G. Kleinmann
Hi Austin -- Did you know about the info page on tar? All you have to do is to type info tar and you get it. I am considering starting a project which would: a) define a standard template for man pages in Linux. I know it would appear that one already exists, but it turns out that what really, re

Bug#1800: missing terminfo keydefs

1995-11-04 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote: > The apparent missing defs I noticed are for kf20-kf29 (Shifted F1-F10, > or f11-f20), kil1 (insert key) and kdel1 (delete key). It looks like I picked the wrong Capnames off the terminfo(5) man page for these last night. Should be kich1 instead of kil1

Bug#1802: source.deb package has unexpected Debian subdirectory

1995-11-04 Thread Bill Mitchell
package: source version: 1.2.13-4 I ran into a debian user a while ago, and he asked me what the Debian directory was doing in the kernel sources. I'd never noticed it and had to say I didn't know. I see now that /usr/src/linux/Debian contains kernel-headers, kernel-image, and kernel-source sub

Bug#1803: /etc/termcap linux definition incomplete

1995-11-04 Thread Bill Mitchell
package: base version: 0.93.6-8 /etc/termcap is missing some keydefs. Following is a linux entry with the missing keydefs added. console|con80x25|linux:\ :do=^J:co#80:li#25:cl=\E[H\E[J:sf=\ED:sb=\EM:\ :le=^H:bs:am:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A:\ :ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[7m:

Bug#1804: manpage of irc missing

1995-11-04 Thread Winfried Truemper
Package: irc The manpage of irc is missing. Winfried