On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:08:43PM -0200, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote:
> Tom Oehser wrote:
>>Maybe you need to convince your ncurses to have termcap fallback support?

>>Installing terminfo requires more than just the /etc, I think.  -Tom
 
> Hmmm, so all I would need is a suitable /etc/termcap. Makes sense. It does 
> not exist right now, so maybe ncurses won't need convincing. Gonna try 
> that. Thanks.
 
> Juan

 ncurses generally uses the /usr/lib/terminfo/ directory tree; it was
 older curses that used the /etc/termcap file.  However, I think ncurses 
 can be built to fall back to /etc/termcap (as Tom suggests).  

--
Jim Dennis 

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