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Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 14:02:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Circular symlinks in terminfo-5.2-2.tar.bz2
To: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>,
   Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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--- Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 
> In short, I'm not at all sure how it worked before. I need to look at the
> source for less to understand how it determines that a terminal is "not fully
> functional" and proceed from there.
> 

Well, it seems that the problem is specific to the way Cygwin's distribution of
less was compiled. The Cygwin binary was compiled without ncurses:

$ cygcheck less.exe
Found: .\less.exe
Found: C:\cygwin\bin\less.exe
.\less.exe
  .\cygwin1.dll
    C:\WINNT\System32\KERNEL32.dll
      C:\WINNT\System32\NTDLL.DLL
  .\cygpcre.dll

When I compiled the source *with* ncurses, less worked perfectly with
TERM=nxterm. Is there a reason that the Cygwin binary was compiled without
ncurses (e.g., minimize package dependencies)?

--Rick

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