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Re: [B20.1] troubles with ncurses examples
- To: Chris <Christine.Pourcelot@inria.fr>
- Subject: Re: [B20.1] troubles with ncurses examples
- From: Mumit Khan <khan@xraylith.wisc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 09:30:15 -0600 (CST)
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On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Chris wrote:
> I've loaded ncurses-4.2 and compiled and installed it on windows NT
> under cygwin (b20.1).
> I'm trying to run the examples but it fails. I got a "Error opening
> terminal : cygwin".
> Am I doing something wrong ?
> Hope this is not a stupid question...
That means that either you have not installed the terminfo files or
your TERM setting is not appropriate.
For cygwin, I strongly suggest create a few fallbacks; I always include
cygwin, vt100 and xterm, so the end users don't have to have all those
terminfo files if they don't want to.
Regards,
Mumit