message resent due to mta misconfigation. On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:45:09AM +0200, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:48:32PM +0200, Alex Dupre wrote: > > In normal situation accessing to a FreeBSD 4.x machine from cygwin is not > > very pleasant: editing files is quite a pain, there are many terminal > > "glitches" like the cursor in the wrong position and garbage text. > > A trick to resolve this issue is to copy the binary cygwin terminfo file in > > /usr/share/misc/terminfo/c/ > > Since FreeBSD 4.0 ncurses libs are included in the base system, but terminfo > > db (and utils) are not installed (while the port for freebsd < 4 installed > > them). > > I read that FreeBSD uses termcap rather than terminfo, but either the > > included cygwin entry or the terminfo-generated one don't work correctly. So > > the binary terminfo seems to be the only solution (and termcap seems to be > > not so powerful). > > My question is: should terminfo database be installed (manually or by > > make/installworld) or is there a better fix? > > take a look at the following PRs : > > giant termcap database update > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/30812 > > installing curses programs and terminfo database > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/38168
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