From:	mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject:	Re: newbie: TERM=dumb unknown
2 Oct 1998 09:01:54 -0700 :
Message-ID:	<721swlmppfB.cygnus.gnu-win32@mike.franken.de>
References:	<01BDEBDF DOT 2F60CF70 DOT ybossel AT bolchile DOT cl>
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To:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hi Yves,

>Hello,
>
>I have checked:
>
>/etc/termcap exists and its rights are set to rwrr
>I have executed 'export TERM=linux' (also tried with ansi) and get the same
>answer: TERM=linux unknown
>
>Note that I have no termcap or ncurses executable (and I don't know what they
>are for). 

Neither termcap nor ncurses are excutables !
They both provide databases for terminal descriptions.
Perhaps you should try to install ncurses.

>
>Thanks

Bye.
Michael.
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