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In <1ikgv4INNn1l@crcnis1.unl.edu> burchell@cse.unl.edu (David Burchell) writes:

>We have elm installed on our LAN of DG AViiONs running DG/UX 5.4.1.
>The actual code is on a server (of sorts), with the elm directory
>mounted on all the workstations in the room.  It has been
>functioning flawlessly, but now on one of the workstations,
>attempting to invoke elm produces the error message:

>Failed trying to initialize your terminal entry: unknown return code -3

This message comes from tgetent() via InitScreen() in src/curses.c.  On
DG/UX, tgetent() returns zero or ERR (which is defined as -1 in
curses.h).  Since InitScreen() assigns special meaning to returns 0,
-1, and -2, the value returned from tgetent() gets 2 subtracted from it
to return the -3 you're seeing.

"But why is tgetent() returning an error at all?" you ask.  Is it
really any user logged into this workstation, or just one particular
user?  Is there such an entry in /usr/share/lib/terminfo (assuming
you're linked with libcurses.a)?  I don't think it works, but if you're
linked with libtermcap.a, is there such an entry in /etc/termcap?  Is
the TERM variable set correctly?  Is either of the variables TERMINFO
or TERMCAP set to some bogus value or directory/file path?  Is the Elm
executable everyone else is using the same one this user/workstation
is executing?

Hope some of this helps.

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