Re: Wich Terminfo file ? for good display of ncurses apps

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From: T.E.Dickey
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:00

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In comp.os.linux.development.apps Dupre <ddu@ping.be> wrote:
> My current TERM variable is set to linux I also tried vt100 but that
> seemed even worse.

> The problem i have is when i run an ncurses application in the console
> that when it draws a box or window  vertical lines start with a code
> "1m" (without the "") I tried several terminfo files but that didnt
> work I'm also using midnight commander and when i use vt100
> it looks like rubbish.

what _does_ infocmp show?  This doesn't sound like any of the usual
bugs unless you have a $HOME/.terminfo directory - see my FAQ:

The current version of ncurses is 4.2
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

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From: "T.E.Dickey" <dickey@shell.clark.net>
Subject: Re: Wich Terminfo file ? for good display of ncurses apps
Date: 1998/12/26
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