ncurses and terminal definitions

Christopher Faylor cgf-idd@cygwin.com
Thu Jul 31 21:33:00 GMT 2003


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:47:13PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
>Hi Terry,
>
>Don't know exactly what accounts for the performance drain you see with
>98.  Like you say, could be just a slow machine.  You'd have to debug it
>to know for sure.
>
>One point.  /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin == c:\usr\share\terminfo\c\cygwin
>only if the Cygwin root mount point (/) == c:\.  As you can see, you get
>this for free if your current drive is c: but that's not guaranteed.  You
>may want to add one step and one binary to your installation procedure.
>That is, after plopping the files down where you want them, invoke the
>following:
>
>  mount -s c:/ /
>
>This will require privileges to write to the system hive of the registry.
>If you don't have this right or can't get it, you can omit the '-s' flag,
>but the mount will only be available for the current user.  You will need
>to repeat the command (minus the '-s') for all the users that need your
>application on that machine.  You don't need to leave 'mount' on the
>machine after installation.

Larry - mount defaults to "-s" these days.  If you want user-mode mounts,
you need to use "-u".

cgf

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