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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!nntprelay.mathworks.com!europa.clark.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: T.E.Dickey <dickey@explorer2.clark.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: terminfo database Date: 18 Jul 1997 09:57:34 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5qneme$8ob@clarknet.clark.net> References: <5qjakl$rc7@news.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 100-explorer2.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970527; sun4u SunOS 5.5.1] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44614 Patrick McConnell <patrick@interlog.com> wrote: : I have a FreeBSD 2.2.2-R machine and a Linux machine. I'm trying to set : them up so that they recognise each other's console terminals, ie 'linux' : and 'cons25'. My problem is that I can't find the terminfo db on the : FreeBSD machine. There is a man page for terminfo that says it's in : /usr/lib/terminfo/*/* (same as Linux), but that directory doesn't exist on : my computer. How can I update terminfo? terminfo is bundled with the more recent versions of ncurses (since 1.8.8 or thereabouts) The current version of ncurses is 4.1 There's an faq at http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html -- Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey