Igor, Thank you for the reply. That solved the problems nicely. I had done some searching in the archive mail lists, but obviously not with the correct criteria.
Roy --- Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Roy H. wrote: > > > Something weird is going on with my cygwin. I > first > > noticed it when I ran 'vim' and it said that it > did > > not recognize a terminal type of 'cygwin'. Ok, so > I > > set the TERM environment to "ansi". That seemed > to > > work, but I noticed that the arrow keys to move > around > > with did not work. So then I went and reset the > > terminal by using the command 'tset'. This came > back > > and said that it did not recognized a terminal of > > cygwin, or ansi, or anything else. I checked my > files > > and I have ncurses and terminfo installed, and the > > files for the various terminal definitions are in > > '/usr/lib/terminfo' right where they are supposed > to > > be. > > > > Then I went to see what the man pages said about > this. > > The man program worked, but it comes back and > says > > "No manual entry for tset", or for any programs. > I > > made sure that I had a good MANPATH, and exported > it. > > Did not help. I have a valid '/etc.man.config' > file, > > and if I start man with the -d option, it echoes > out > > the paths as listed in the '/etc.man.config' file. > > Even when I specify the man path directory by > using > > 'man -M /usr/man man > > ', it still says it can not find the man page. > > > > My PATH works fine, but who knows what else does > not > > really work. > > > > I could really use a little help with this > problem. > > > > I am running Win 2k all of the cygwin programs are > up > > to date. My shell is bash. Below is the out put > from > > 'cygcheck -s'. > > [snip] > > Roy, > > First off, please *attach* the output of cygcheck, > as per > <http://cygwin.com/bugs.html>, due to it introducing > false positives into > archives search when in the body of the message. > > Secondly, read the following thread: > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-02/msg02095.html> > > An archive search for "terminfo" found it, BTW. > Igor > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a > JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a > really *big* RAMdisk! > -- /usr/games/fortune > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
