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Re: sshd, xemacs and termcap
Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> writes:
> "Henry S. Thompson" wrote:
> >
> > Finally got my sshd working (thanks to Corinna and contributors to
> > this list), but when I run remotely and try to use xemacs
> > (xemacs-21.1.8, cygwin build) I get
> >
> > Initialization error: Terminal type `xterm' undefined (or can't access
> > database?)
> >
> > I get a a similar error egardless of what I set TERM to, despite the
> > fact that e.g. less clearly _can_ find xterm in /etc/termcap.
>
> Isn't emacs compiled using curses? You'll have to have the curses
> library. Look at
>
> ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Wilson_Charles_S/V1.1/ncurses-5.0/
That worked, thank you very much.
For the FAQ, if anyone cares: you have to edit the misc/terminfo.src file
in the distribution to change or remove the upper case synonyms for
the NCR entries, since the WIN32 case folding makes them break the
installation process.
ht
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