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Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 17:21:26 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Rick Rankin wrote:


> 
> 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)?


That's probably the reason.  If it doesn't use ncurses, then it probably 
uses termcap.  So, you can extract the nxterm stuff from the terminfo 
database and convert it to termcap format using (I think) 'tic -c'. 
Then, just paste that termcap fragment to the end of your /etc/termcap file.

--Chuck



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