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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 12:13:22 +0200
From: Serge Eric Thiam <serge-eric.thiam@student.uni-ulm.de>
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Patrick McConnell wrote:
> 
> Whoops, as per newbie usual, I got it to work right after posting this...
> 
> I ran 'tconv -c -B /etc/termcap' with the 'linux' entry in termcap, and it
> created the whole terminfo database. Telneting from Linux to FreeBSD
> works properly now. Thanks for your help!
> 
> Patrick
--
> Patrick McConnell (patrick@interlog.com)
> Finger info: http://www.interlog.com/~patrick/finger
> 
> "640k ought to be enough for anybody."
>                                -Bill Gates, 1981
But it doesn´t work for me.... I get the error msg "
-- tconv: can't find a terminfo directory" .. What am I doing wrong?

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