Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/05/18:53:01
Randall R Schulz wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> I was meaning to write this up earlier, but work keeps getting in the
> way.
>
> When I used your new termcap entry, "less" (when it's displaying
> output piped to it via its standard input but not when it is given a
> file name argument) tells me "WARNING: terminal is not fully
> functional".
Well, I hate to be brusque, but I don't maintain termcap, just terminfo.
I provided a termcap translation as an offhand thing; I didn't really
think about it. Perhaps I should have thought about it, and then not
done it <g>.
Anyway, perhaps some codes were dropped in the terminfo -> termcap
autoconversion. Or perhaps my new-n-improved terminfo entry is wrong:
but the only way to find out is to recompile less to use
terminfo/ncurses, and run your testcase.
I don't plan on doing that; sorry.
If the *terminfo* entry breaks *existing* apps that use *ncurses*, then
I want to know, and I'll fix it (patches gratefully accepted, etc etc).
Otherwise, I don't care. Termcap is not my baby.
--Chuck
> Here's an excerpt, with context, from my "/etc/termcap":
>
[snip]
> The "lcygwin" is just to prevent a conflict without having to remove
> the old entry.
>
> Now if I switch back (rename "cygwin" in the above to "wcygwin" and
> "lcygwin" to "cygwin"), less works as usual for both standard input
> and file name arguments.
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