Re: ncurses/terminfo problems (fwd)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:28:15PM -0330, Neil Zanella wrote:
> 
> Hi. I just thought I'd forward this to the ncurses mailing list as well
> just in case anyone has anything else to contribute to this thread.

0.02$ worth...

> The CD-ROM that you are referring to is, apparently, the now-defunct
> Cygwin 1.0 release.  ncurses on this CD was in the "contributed" area
> and was not officially supported there either.  This should have been
> made very clear in the installation instructions for the CD.

not to be overly pedantic, but the cygwin release itself is not sufficient to
do software development (there's no text editor -- except in the "contributed"
area, which reminds me that not all of the "contributed" programs rated that
particular adjective, since the authors didn't have much to do with that
process specifically for cygwin).  

my point being, that since the "contributed" programs are needed to do useful
work (or find replacements), the typical user on the net reporting problems
doesn't tend to make the fine distinction regarding the part of the cdrom
they got the program from.

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