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Re: sshd, xemacs and termcap


"Henry S. Thompson" wrote:
> 
> Finally got my sshd working (thanks to Corinna and contributors to
> this list), but when I run remotely and try to use xemacs
> (xemacs-21.1.8, cygwin build) I get
> 
> Initialization error: Terminal type `xterm' undefined (or can't access
> database?)
> 
> I get a a similar error egardless of what I set TERM to, despite the
> fact that e.g. less clearly _can_ find xterm in /etc/termcap.

Isn't emacs compiled using curses? You'll have to have the curses
library. Look at

ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Wilson_Charles_S/V1.1/ncurses-5.0/

Corinna

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