Re: [MiNT] real VT100 and termcap

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 12:04:55PM +0100, Steven Moore wrote:
> > However, SSH and most recent stuff requires a localy-compiled
> > terminfo, which must be added by the admin.  
> 
> Er, just one thing; where's the terminfo compiler? Is it included in kgmd, 
> because I'm having trouble finding it...?

This is part of ncurses.  Unfortunately Petr has only published the bare
library and a castrated terminfo database.  Most of the important stuff
(compiler, converter, tput, ...) is missing.

In fact you will only need Petr's port if you intend to build executables
that will run also under MagiC or TOS because he has built in some
workaround for these systems.  For MiNT only (or for other systems that
have a terminfo database) it should actually be sufficient to compile the
ncurses package with the additional terminal definitions we need and
install it properly.  I must admit that this approach looks far more
attractive to me and the resulting code in the library will also get
smaller.  I don't think that a hardcore MagiC user will ever think of
installing lynx instead of CAB.

The problems with all kind of curses stuff usually doesn't arise from real
portability problems but rather from wrong or missing terminal
definitions.

Ciao

Guido
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