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Re: newbie: TERM=dumb unknown
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: newbie: TERM=dumb unknown
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 01 Oct 1998 23:39:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi Yves,
>Hello,
>
>I have checked:
>
>/etc/termcap exists and its rights are set to rwrr
>I have executed 'export TERM=linux' (also tried with ansi) and get the same
>answer: TERM=linux unknown
>
>Note that I have no termcap or ncurses executable (and I don't know what they
>are for).
Neither termcap nor ncurses are excutables !
They both provide databases for terminal descriptions.
Perhaps you should try to install ncurses.
>
>Thanks
Bye.
Michael.
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