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Date:	Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:50:21 -0400
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: PROBLEM SOLVED: NT/2000 failure
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In-Reply-To:	<3B7363F2.8040107@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:32:50AM -0400

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:32:50AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Ron House wrote:
>
>> Following this, I installed the ncurses package and everything worked. I
>> have a feeling that only a tiny part of that big ncurses pack is
>> actually used to make exes function.
>
>
>Well, actually the terminfo database is about 1M unpacked, or about 1/3 
>of the total (due to the large number of small files, and large number 
>of directories, usage is highly file-system dependent).  On the next 
>release of ncurses, I plan to split the libs/exe's and the terminfo 
>database into two separate packages.  I haven't decided what to do about 
>the -src.tar.bz2 package for the terminfo-database part.

For this particular case isn't it likely that only the
/usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin file is needed?

cgf

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