Re: Can't open vt100 or xterm

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 address@hidden wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm trying to get ncurses 5.2 ported to Mac OS X. I had no problems with 
> version 5.1 under the public beta. 5.2 compiles without errors (just a 
> bunch of warnings, but when I invoke programs in the test directory, I 
> get either
> 
> 1) Error opening terminal: vt100: in the Terminal.app under Aqua,
> 
> or
> 
> 2) Error opening terminal: xterm: in X Windows (Tenon's XTools).
> 
> Is there some environmental variable that ncurses is looking for?

it is looking for the terminfo database, e.g., (the exact path depends
on how it was configured)
        /usr/local/share/terminfo
Perhaps the porter for the 'public beta' installed terminfo under some
other directory.  (If I had only binaries to inspect, I would do a
"strings" on libncurses and look for "/terminfo").

> 
> TIA
> 
> Marius
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> Marius Schamschula
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> The Huntsville Macintosh Users Group
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