The tack program is a diagnostic that is designed to create and verify the correctness of terminfo's. This program can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard terminfo database.
tack was distributed as part of the ncurses package until (upstream) 5.7, when it was spun out into its own package. Since I have updated cygwin's ncurses package(s) to 5.7, the new versions are "deficient" compared to the old ones. This package remedies that. tack is part of Fedora 7, 8, 9, and 10: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=5002 ================ setup.hint ================== category: Utils requires: cygwin libncurses8 sdesc: "Utility for creating and verifying termi ldesc: "The tack program is a diagnostic that is create and verify the correctness of terminfo's. can be used to create new terminal descriptions included in the standard terminfo database." ================ setup.hint ================== cygwin-1.5: http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-1.tar.bz2 cygwin-1.7: http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-10-src.tar.bz2 http://cygwin.cwilson.fastmail.fm/ITP/tack-1.06-10.tar.bz2 OK to upload? -- Chuck
