Problems with terminal -tn setting TERM variable

[Matt Wozniski]

Oh, I'm sorry, I misread.  Well, then, that makes perfect sense.  My
mistake, Igor.  :)

Can anyone tell me who the xterm maintainer is?  I was under the
impression that the entirety of Cygwin/X is unmaintained.

~Matt

On 11/4/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Matt Wozniski wrote:
>
> > On 11/3/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@XX.XXX.XXX> wrote:
>
> <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.
>
> > > According to the xterm manpage, "This terminal type must exist in the
> > > terminal database (termcap or terminfo, depending on how xterm is
> > > built) and should have li# and co# entries. If the terminal type is
> > > not found, xterm uses the built-in list ``xterm'', ``vt102'', etc."
> > >
> > > "xterm -tn ansi" and "xterm -tn vt100" both work.  You need to look at
> > > your terminal database and figure out why xterm is not picking it up.
> >
> > Well, mystery solved, it's using termcap instead of terminfo, but why
> > would on earth would two Cygwin xterm packages (mine and Igor's) use
> > two different terminal capability databases?  The man page says that
> > it depends on how it was built, but how could the two packages have
> > been built differently?
>
> Umm, actually, what I said was that I *could* reproduce your behavior.
> My xterm also uses /etc/termcap.  No mystery here.  Both "ansi" and
> "vt100" are in /etc/termcap, and "xterm-16color" isn't.
>
> > Igor:  Does "grep '^xterm' /etc/termcap" give you more than just one
> > line defining xterm-r6 and xterm?  I'm just trying to figure out if
> > yours is also using termcap and your termcap entry covers
> > xterm-16color, or if yours is using terminfo like it ought to be.
>
> My termcap only has one entry for xterm.
>
> As for whether xterm should be using terminfo, you might want to ask the
> xterm maintainer to rebuild the package.
> HTH,
>         Igor
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