Question about X-term

kevh@cgocable.net kevh@cgocable.net
Mon Apr 24 17:16:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 08:06:41AM -0700, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >Failed to open input method
> >xterm:  unable to find usable termcap entry.
> 
> These are the errors and xterm failed because it could not find a useful
> termcap entry in /etc/termcap file.

I don't think the official cygwin release includes a termcap file.

> I have no idea about Korean Win98.
> 
> All the clients work ok under all the English Windows OS's.

Not on my Win95 installation of x11r6.3.  I'm seeing the same thing.
(The mirror site I used still doesn't have 6.4, so this might have
changed.)

In any case, the rxvt program from the cygutils site works fine for
me as a substitute.
( http://cygutils.netpedia.net/V1.1/rxvt-2.6.1/index.html )

-Kevin


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