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Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:46:37 +1000
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Subject: Re: top - uknown terminal type
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Egerton, Jim wrote:
> Works fine after running /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh.
> 
> thanks Chuck/Christopher,
> jim
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cygwin AT cwilson DOT fastmail DOT fm] 
>> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 6:54 PM
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>> Subject: Re: top - uknown terminal type
>>
>> Egerton, Jim wrote:
>>> top gives me 'cygwin': unknown terminal type with a fresh 
>> 1.7 install on server 2008.   Any ideas what I am missing?
>>
>> Well, top uses:
>>> libncurses8          5.5-10              OK
>> which needs the "old-style" terminfo database in
>>> terminfo0            5.5_20061104-10     OK
>> which you have. I'd try to re-run
>>    /etc/postinstall/terminfo0.sh.done
>> and try again.

I wonder if this problem is the same one other people had with "vim"
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00682.html

Sure sounds the same. I wonder if Chuck/Christopher's solution would 
also work for them? It sounds better than the previous workaround, which 
was to revert to an earlier version of terminfo0.

Cheers,
Chris

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