On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 10:42:04PM +0100, atomicules wrote: > On 30-May-2014 14:31:11, Gerard Lally wrote: > >I copied this terminfo source file to my home directory in NetBSD and > >ran tic on it: > > > >tic -s rxvt-unicode-256color.terminfo. > > > >This created a .terminfo directory in HOME, and a subdirectory r with a > >single file in r called rxvt-unicode-256color. No cdb extension in other > >words. > > I'm stumped and confused. I don't understand how NetBSD could do that > (not create a database file; a file with the .cdb extension). > According to the man page for tic: > > >DESCRIPTION > > The tic utility compiles terminfo(5) source into a database for use by > > other programs. The created database path name is the same as the > > source > > but with .cdb appended. > > The .terminfo directory and subdirecotry you describe is what I see on Arch > Linux, but not NetBSD.
Make sure you run the right tic - if you have ncurses installed due to some package dependency you may be accidentally running the ncurses tic which will produce the wrong results, try using /usr/bin/tic and see what happens. This catches me out from time to time. -- Brett Lymn Staple Guns: because duct tape doesn't make that KerCHUNK sound - xkcd.com
