From: ataylor AT cs DOT ucsd DOT edu (Adam Taylor) Subject: Re: Installing GNU texinfo 3.11 under cygwin32 31 Oct 1997 11:45:55 -0800 Message-ID: <345A2DC3.5E27255D.cygnus.gnu-win32@cs.ucsd.edu> References: <01BCE5E4 DOT 1E21D850 AT gater DOT krystalbank DOT msk DOT ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Folks, Sergey Okhapkin wrote: > Adam Taylor wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, although the status bars at the top and bottom of the > > window get displayed, nothing else does. And when I press keys, it > > seems like only every other key is perceived by info. > > > > You have to enable cygwin.s tty support with "set CYGWIN_TTY=1". Thanks for the help! CYGWIN_TTY=1 seems to do the trick. I must have overlooked this when I read your (i.e. Sergey Okhapkin's) homepage. (Or read it, not understood it, and then decided it probably wasn't important!) Larry Hall wrote: > At 03:13 PM 10/30/97 -0800, you wrote: > >I'm using b19 with Sergey Okhapkin's latest patches (10/29/97), under NT > >4.0 SP3. Also, I have installed ncurses 1.9.9g, which seems to work, > >all the > >test programs and less (3.32) work just fine. > > I'm personally curious about this statement. I've got a similar > configuration (although using b18 which I believe is what you meant). > However, I find less doesn't work that well. After a few pages, it resets > the end of page to the middle of the screen and only scrolls from the top > to there. Do you see something different with less? I'd really like to > get this working and I'm not looking forward to diving into debug it. > Yes, I did mean b18. Sorry about that. I find that less has problems when getting input from a pipe, but works fine when the input is from a file. At least, I think that's the pattern. I haven't looked at it very seriously. Based on this, and on vague recollections of people mentioning problems with the pipes implementation in the mail archive, I assumed it was a problem with the pipes implementation. But again, I'm talking almost completely out of my butt here. Larry Hall wrote: > >Do I need to install the termcap library? I was under the impression > >that ncurses implements the termcap API, so I shouldn't need to. Is > >this not right? Why does ncurses include a termcap.h header file? > > You need to install the libncurses.a library somewhere, otherwise it > won't be used. Doing a "make install" should be all that's necessary to > get it into the default spot. You'll need to reconfigure and remake the > app after that. You don't need the termcap package in addition to ncurses > though. Ncurses is supposed to be a "better" termcap library so one or > the other is all you should need. My understanding is that ncurses certainly implements a superset of the termcap _functionality_, but my question is whether it actually implements a superset of the termcap _API_. Of course, that wasn't the problem in this case, but I'm still curious what the answer is. Adam - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".