Re: No colors, unknown terminal

Christian Ebert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Organization Black Trash Productions <http://www.blacktrash.org/>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* John E. Davis on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 12:12:39 +0000
> Christian Ebert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have broken my S-Lang/Slrn setup -- the usual way: without
>> knowing what I was doing ;-)
> 
> Other than slrn, did you upgrade anything else?

Yup, found the culprit: new ncurses. I didn't realize the issue
until now because I had customized entries in ~/.terminfo that I
removed temporarily today.

To my layman's eyes there's a new terminfo layout since the
ncurses patch from 2007-11-17:

$ ls -l /usr/local/share/terminfo | head -5
total 0
drwxr-xr-x     4 root  wheel    136 Nov 29 12:36 31
drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel    170 Nov 29 12:35 32
drwxr-xr-x     4 root  wheel    136 Nov 29 12:35 33
drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel    170 Nov 29 12:35 34

As opposed to (after downgrading):
$ ls -l /usr/local/share/terminfo | head -5
total 0
drwxr-xr-x     4 root  wheel    136 Nov 29 22:53 1
drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel    170 Nov 29 22:53 2
drwxr-xr-x     4 root  wheel    136 Nov 29 22:53 3
drwxr-xr-x     5 root  wheel    170 Nov 29 22:53 4

Seems like Slrn doesn't look up terminfo dirs with 2 character
names?

Should I take this to the ncurses list (when I find time), or is
it something that should be solved within Slrn (other programs
don't seem to have that problem)?

Thanks.

c
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