Re: Recovery CD going well, want it better
Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.tomsrtbt |
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Jim wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:08:43PM -0200, Juan Carlos Castro y Castro wrote: > >>Tom Oehser wrote: >> >>>Maybe you need to convince your ncurses to have termcap fallback support? >>>Installing terminfo requires more than just the /etc, I think. -Tom > >>Hmmm, so all I would need is a suitable /etc/termcap. Makes sense. It does >>not exist right now, so maybe ncurses won't need convincing. Gonna try >>that. Thanks. > >>Juan > > ncurses generally uses the /usr/lib/terminfo/ directory tree; it was > older curses that used the /etc/termcap file. However, I think ncurses > can be built to fall back to /etc/termcap (as Tom suggests). Actually, I kind of put that problem in the low priority list. I have to worry about more sophisticated partitioning options now (here I go fetch sfdisk sources and build static), and everything works fine with boring "echo" and "read". I'll get back to beautifying later. Thanks for the help people. Juan -- Life is complex: it has real and imaginary components.