Re: HP-UX terminfo and problems with "screen"

From: Thomas Dickey (dickey_at_saltmine.radix.net)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:43:11 -0000

Thomas E Lackey <forums@redbudcomputer.com> wrote:

> I am running in to the same problem myself with 11i (11.11) on a
> J5000. If I find something out I will post it; but I thought I would
> check if by any chance have you already figured it out?

I'd assume screen is linked with ncurses, and that is looking in
a different terminfo database (probably not installed). The easy
way to see this is to do a 'strings' on the executable and look for
"termcap" and "terminfo", seeing in particular if the latter is part
of a filename.

HP's terminfo format is different from other systems (including ncurses).

Though ncurses can be compiled to use HP's terminfo format,
that's a configure option (and packagers generally don't look closely
at options).

The current version of ncurses is 5.4 (20040208)
There's an faq at
        http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html 

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