Help with error in vi and man

[Trevor Osatchuk]

On 5/10/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:20:55AM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote:
> >On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >> On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 06:27:59PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote:
> >> >On 5/7/05, Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 10:59:22PM -0600, Trevor Osatchuk wrote:
> >> >> >When starting up vi/vim I get the following error:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >E558: Terminal entry not found in terminfo
> >> >> >'cygwin' not known. Available builtin terminals are:
> >> >> >builtin_ansi
> >> >> >builtin_xterm
> >> >> >builtin_iris-ansi
> >> >> >builtin_dumb
> >> >> >defaulting to ansi
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Help does not work for vim I get the error:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >E433: No tags file
> >> >> >E149: Sorry, no help for help.txt
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Also when I type in the man command, man ls for example, all I get is
> >> >> >(END) and no man page.  Like it paged to the end.  I don't currently
> >> >> >have a pager environment variable.  My manpath is correct.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Any ideas?
> >> >>
> >> >> Run the cygwin version of vim, i.e., /usr/bin/vim?  You're obviously
> >> >> running some other version.  "which vim" would probably show which
> >> >> version you're running.
> >> >>
> >> >Obviously is a strong word!  Which vim yeilds /usr/bin/vim.  I have
> >> >seen these symtoms in other posts, though no solutions.
> >>
> >> Ok.  Perhaps your terminfo installation is screwed up or nonexistent.
> >>
> >> If you're scouring old posts then maybe you've come across the concept
> >> of following the instructions at http://cygwin.com/problems.html , as
> >> has already been sugested.  These instructions would help you send
> >> problems in such a way that we wouldn't have to guess about things like
> >> what version of vim you're running or whether you even have terminfo
> >> installed.
> >>
> >I apologize for not sending the expected information and format.  LART accepted.
> >
> >I am running CYGWIN_NT-5.1, I got that from uname.
> >
> >I think that terminfo may in fact be the correct diagnosis.  I found a
> >symlink of terminfo in /lib where terminfo was pointing to
> >../share/terminfo.  There is no /share directory.  If you look in my
> >cygcheck.out you will find that terminfo 5.4_20041009-1 is listed as
> >installed.  So, is my installation of terminfo broken?  What do  I
> >need to do to fix it?
> 
> Install terminfo.
> 
I did install and reinstall terminfo to no avail.  I also did a
reinstall of Base to no avail.  I just finished a complete reinstall
and now it all works.  I must have screwed something up along the way.
 One thing that I am still curious is /lib/terminfo.  This is a sym
link to a nonexistant directory.  Is this an error in the install?  It
doesn't seem to affect my current install but I wonder if it breaks
something that I don't currently use.

Thanks for all of the suggestions.

fybar

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