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Re: Problems with terminal -tn setting TERM variable


On 11/3/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:

According to the xterm manpage, "This terminal type must exist in the
terminal database (termcap or terminfo, depending on how xterm is built)
and should have li# and co# entries. If the terminal type is not found,
xterm uses the built-in list ``xterm'', ``vt102'', etc."

"xterm -tn ansi" and "xterm -tn vt100" both work.  You need to look at
your terminal database and figure out why xterm is not picking it up.
HTH,
        Igor
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Well, mystery solved, it's using termcap instead of terminfo, but why would on earth would two Cygwin xterm packages (mine and Igor's) use two different terminal capability databases? The man page says that it depends on how it was built, but how could the two packages have been built differently?

Igor:  Does "grep '^xterm' /etc/termcap" give you more than just one
line defining xterm-r6 and xterm?  I'm just trying to figure out if
yours is also using termcap and your termcap entry covers
xterm-16color, or if yours is using terminfo like it ought to be.

Thanks for any insight anyone can provide.
~Matt

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