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- From: tom@osf.org (Tom Jordahl)
- Subject: Re: Elm doesn't recognize TERMCAP ?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.180334.6949@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation, Cambridge MA
- References: <1585@spam.ua.oz>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 18:03:34 GMT
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- In article <1585@spam.ua.oz> dcook@spam.ua.oz (David Cook) writes:
- >
- > I am having a problem with Elm (I think the version is 2.3PL11)
- >on a Decstation, running OSF/1 1.0.
- [deleted]
- >On another machine (the one running OSF), adm3a isn't in
- >/etc/termcap, so I took the part of the first machine's termcap
- >describing adm3a, and put it in a file in my home directory,
- >and set the environment variable TERMCAP to point to that file.
- >This works for some programs (eg nethack), but elm gives the
- >following :
- >
- >You need a cursor-addressable terminal to run "elm" and I can't find any
- >kind of termcap entry for "adm3a" - check your "TERM" setting...
- >
- >Shouldn't elm obey the TERMCAP variable ( TERM is set to 'adm3a', btw) ?
- >Is this fixable in configuration, or will it have to wait to 2.4/3.0 ?
-
- As several people have pointed out, your elm was probably compiled
- with -lcurses (which is correct for OSF/1). Elm is using terminfo.
-
- You need a terminfo entry for this terminal. Your OSF/1 system should
- have one, since OSF ships one in /usr/share/lib/terminfo/lsi.ti.
-
- Check to make sure the directory, /usr/share/lib/terminfo has single
- letter (and digit) subdirectories. The 'a' directory should have
- lots of adm* terminals in it.
-
- If not, get you system admin (or become root) to execute the
- /postboot script to build the terminfo data base.
-
- If you can't get this to happen, read the tic(1) man page and
- set your TERMINFO variable to a directory you can write in,
- run the following : 'tic /usr/share/lib/terminfo/lsi.ta'.
-
- Good luck.
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