Re: Recovery CD going well, want it better

Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.tomsrtbt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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