Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 00:50:21 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: PROBLEM SOLVED: NT/2000 failure Message-ID: <20010810005021.A20309@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3B71FD9D.1AE29C53@usq.edu.au> <3B72B4C0.4020100@earthlink.net> <3B732FA1.3C31E18D@usq.edu.au> <997405375.12638.0.camel@lifelesswks> <3B7339B0.2B8F97C1@usq.edu.au> <997407997.3564.3.camel@robertlinux> <3B735E7C.577243B@usq.edu.au> <3B73618D.6D9E9F96@usq.edu.au> <3B7363F2.8040107@ece.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/