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From: dold@87.usenet.us.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Terminal warnings with RH5.1
Date: 20 Aug 1998 17:47:30 GMT
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: Dzung Pham <pham@iron.ece.jhu.edu> wrote:
: : I recently upgraded from Redhat Linux 5 to 5.1. With the upgrade
: : however, kermit now gives the following message when starting up
: : Warning: terminal type unknown: "xterm"
Frank da Cruz (fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
: C-Kermit uses (n)curses to format the fullscreen file-transfer display.
: (n)curses, in turn, uses the terminfo database. When C-Kermit starts, it
: checks your TERM environment variable and asks (n)curses if this terminal
: type is acceptable. If (n)curses says "no", it usually means your terminfo
: database lacks an entry for the terminal whose name is the value of the TERM
: variable, "xterm" in this case, and in that case C-Kermit disables its
: fullscreen file-transfer display.
This is the problem I mentioned a few days ago. RedHat 5.1 is my first try
at RedHat, so I didn't know that the kermit.rpm worked on any previous
version.
A program of my own construction that references curses works fine, so
there is apparently something wrong with the variety of curses that is
installed (there are several available), or the kermit.rpm needs to be
adjusted to correspond to some other change in RedHat 5.1
It doesn't matter what TERM is set to. It doesn't find any of them.
In my program, I told it -lcurses and -lncurses. Both worked.
It also didn't matter whether -DMINICURSES was included.
I tried to "make linux" from the fresh source for kermit, but that gave a
pile of errors. I haven't looked at what, yet.
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