From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: termcap / terminfo ?
6 Feb 1998 08:00:33 -0800
Message-ID: <19980206131151.6421.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
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To: Haakon DOT Alstadheim AT sds DOT no
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com



>From: Haakon Alstadheim <Haakon DOT Alstadheim AT sds DOT no>
>To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: termcap / terminfo ?
>Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 19:10:51 +0100
>
>Hi, I just started looking at the gnu-win32 toolset yesterday (I have
>some unix experience) , so bear with me.
>
>I'm not planning to use the gnu-win32 tools for development for now,
>only file management and text processing. Hence, i downloaded the
>usertools.exe.
>Then I downloaded and installed the binaries pointed at from Sergey
>Okhapkin's site
><http://miracle.geol.msu.ru/sos/>, and installed them on top of the
>usertools. I also did the mounting and file linking like it says in
><http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru/>.
>
>My next logical step is to get some way to read man-pages.
>"cmd /c more < manpage.1" works, and that lets me se some of the text
>inbetween all
>the formatting commands.
>One step in the right direction would be to get "less" running. This I
>downloaded from <http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf/>, but it doesent like
>the terminal, so "cmd /c more" is actually better.
>
>******THE QUESTIONS*************
>The remedy would be some kind of termcap or terminfo setup.
>The questions are :
>	- which one? (termcap/terminfo)
>	- how do I do it?
>	- where can I get a termcap file?
>***************************************
>P.S I'm running NT server 4.0


I didn't see this one at any of the portals.  Go to your favorite GNU 
mirror and get the latest ncurses package.  It builds without too much 
ado.

You will have to have your directories mounted as text=binary.  You need 
this script to install.

#!/bin/sh
# file: install
# author: earnie        email: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com
# Install Preprocessor for the gnu-win32 "make install" command.
#
# To use:
#   mv /bin/install.exe /bin/ginstall
#   copy this file to /bin/install
#
# Note:
#   No warranty implicit or explicit is given.
#   You may copy, distribute and use as you see fit.
#   USE AT YOU OWN RISK.
#
tstr=""
while test $# -gt 0; \
do \
        if test -e $1.exe; \
        then \
                tstr="$tstr$1.exe $2.exe"; \
                shift; \
        else \
                tstr="$tstr$1 "; \
        fi; \
        shift; \
done
echo "/bin/ginstall $tstr"
eval "/bin/ginstall $tstr"; \
exit

>
>Seeing the speed with which I am up and running with bash and 
everything
>(AMAZING!) I have no doubt that some kind soul can get me the rest of
>the way.
>
>-


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http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/    (HTML Man Pages)
http://www.lexa.ru/sos                               (Sergey Okhapkin)
ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/                (Sergey's ftp site)
http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html        (Colin Peters)
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http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru                   (Chuck Bogorad's ports)
ftp://ftp.deninc.com/pub (Den Internet Services - US mirror and ports)
http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/  (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration)
http://rcw.home.ml.org/                  (Rob Warner - software ports)


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