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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Terminal warnings with RH5.1
Date: 20 Aug 1998 18:40:58 GMT
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In article <6rhnfi$qu$1@samba.rahul.net>, <dold@network.rahul.net> wrote:
: : 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.
:
OK, then it appears something is wrong:
1. C-Kermit 6.0 predates Red Hat 5.1, as well as the newer Linux
releases, glibc, etc etc.
2. The C-Kermit RPM predates Red Hat 5.1. It was made by a person
at Red Hat who is no longer there. Reportedly this RPM references
ncurses 3.0. I suspect that Red Hat 5.1 has some other version of
ncurses and perhaps this is what is causing the trouble.
3. C-Kermit 6.1, now in Beta test:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck61.html
is compatible with newer Linuxes, glibc, etc, and does not (itself)
require any particular version of ncurses. Grab the source from
op.cit., unpack it, and "make linux". It should go smoothly.
If somebody would like to send in a replacement for the C-Kermit 6.0
RPM that works with all versions of Red Hat, including 5.1, be my guest.
I also hope somebody will be able to make RPMs for the next version of
C-Kermit when it is released. If you're interested, please contact me.