tcdialog loops without stdin

Hi,

trying to install/setup teTeX packages in batch mode (with some unexpected
problem) shows that tcdialog loops and sucks cpu time if stdin is not a tty.

try:

	TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo tcdialog  --title xxx --yesno text 40 20  < /dev/null
or
	TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo TERM=vt100 tcdialog  --title xxx --yesno text 40 20  < /dev/null

or similar on Linux (for me: suse91).


BTW: why do I need this TERMINFO=/usr/share/terminfo for tcdialog ???
by default I only get the error message

	Error opening terminal: xterm.

and here is the tail of strace output:

	open("/home/koenig/.dialogrc", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
	ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
	access("/home/koenig/.terminfo/x/xterm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
	access("/usr/local/teTeX/terminfo/x/xterm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
	write(2, "Error opening terminal: xterm.\n", 31Error opening terminal: xterm.
	) = 31
	exit_group(1)                           = ?




Harald Koenig
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