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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:58:19 -0400
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: less problem
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In-Reply-To: <392FFD3D.EFB81EC4@dothill.com>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 12:52:13PM -0400

On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 12:52:13PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>> On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 12:03:10PM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>> ><Whine>
>> >I really wished that Cygwin already included terminfo versions of less,
>> >texinfo, etc., and ncurses (ie, terminfo) too.
>> ></Whine>
>> 
>> Can I ask why?  I don't see much sense in downloading megabytes of information
>> and installing it on your system so that you get the same functionality as
>> comes from a 9745 byte termcap file.
>
>Point well taken.  But, would you be willing to at least add termcap
>entries for rxvt, vt100, and other popular terminal types?

Sure.  I'll gladly accept patches.

cgf

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