Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: {rxvt-unicode-X/rxvt-unicode-common}-9.07-1
From: "A.R. Burgers" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:41:08 +0100
Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

Thanks very much for the explanation, works fine now.

Teun

Charles Wilson schreef:
> A.R. Burgers wrote:
>> I installed rxvt-unicode-X and rxvt-unicode-common.
>> The postinstall script has run, /etc/termcap has been updated.
>> /usr/share/terminfo as well:
>>
>>> $ find /usr/share/terminfo -mtime -1
>>> /usr/share/terminfo/72
>>> /usr/share/terminfo/72/rxvt-unicode
>>> /usr/share/terminfo/72/rxvt-unicode256
>> However I get "unknown terminal type" messages:
> 
> This is because some -- many -- applications have not been recompiled
> since 4/2008, and are still using cygncurses-8.dll.  That dll used the
> "old" terminfo database, in which the entries are organized as
> 
> /usr/share/terminfo/[a-zA-z0-9]/
> 
> The new terminfo entries are organized as
> 
> /usr/share/terminfo/xx/  where xx is a two-digit hexadecimal number.
> 
> Now, the rxvt-unicode-common postinstall script WILL install two
> different copies of each entry, but only if you have installed the
> old-style terminfo compiler program tic0.
> 
> Use setup, install the 'tic0' package, and reinstall rxvt-unicode-common.
> 
> --
> Chuck
> 

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