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

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From: Bart Hanssens
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:00

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On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 12:51:50 GMT, Dupre wrote:
>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.

Maybe your application uses /etc/termcap ?

>Strangely enough when i run the ncurses app in xterm under Xwindows
>everything seems fine

Probably because TERM is set to xterm.

greetings,

antares
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c...because you can't build universes upon E = m COBOL^2

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From: antares@rtfs.net (Bart Hanssens)
Subject: Re: Wich Terminfo file ? for good display of ncurses apps
Date: 1998/12/28
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