----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:48 AM Subject: Missing terminfo data in XFree86 4.2.0
> Hi > > I ran into the following problem with the current XFree86 distribution, but > could not find any mention of any solution here or elsewhere. > it appears i've run into the same problem, or a related one. i recently had to reinstall cygwin and xfree86 owing to a disk problem. i did the installation using the new, combined cygwin-xfree86 package. after the reinstallation, i got the following nasty message whenever i invoked tcsh in an rxvt or an xterm window: tcsh: No entry for terminal type "xterm" tcsh: using dumb terminal settings. i think i've been able to band-aid the problem by creating xterm as a symbolic link to xterm-xfree86 in the /usr/share/terminfo directory, but this doesn't strike me as a good solution. why wasn't the appropriate xterm file installed to begin with? gene
