Message-Id: <200911281814.nASIEPeh005228@delorie.com> X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,MISSING_MID X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,MISSING_MID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS From: Charles Wilson Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 12:44:11 -0500 Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: {terminfo/terminfo-extra/termcap}-5.7_20091114-12 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com The terminfo packages contain the terminal information database that enables proper operation of ncurses-based applications. The termcap package provides an obsolete, backwards-compatible format that contains similar information, for a few selected terminal types. This package provides the terminfo database using the arrangement expected by the libncurses9 (and later) libraries. Older applications which use the legacy libncurses8 library will use the data provided by the terminfo0 backwards-compatibility database. Both terminfo and terminfo0 may be installed simultaneously. Even OLDER applications that use the obsolete /etc/termcap database are supported by the The terminfo package contains most of the terminal definitions commonly used on the cygwin platform, and a selection of others. The terminfo-extra package provides all of the others. CHANGES since terminfo-5.7_20090228 =================================== o Update to 20091114 patchset from ncurses o Modify screen, xterm, cygwin, and cygwin-DBG terminal types to use ^? for backspace (e.g kbs=\177) rather than ^H. Screen and the cygwin-1.7 console use this setting by default, so this corrects an error in the terminfo data. xterm has not yet been updated to use ^?; you should modify /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm and add the following two lines, until it is updated: *backarrowKeyIsErase: true *ptyInitialErase: true o Add termcap subpackage, replacing the pre-existing standalone version. termcap has been deprecated, so the standalone package, which provided not just /etc/termcap, but also /usr/include/termcap.h /usr/lib/libtermcap.a /usr/share/man/man3/termcap.3 has been removed. For backwards compatibility, an updated version of /etc/termcap is provided here, but the development files are not: newly compiled applications should use terminfo (that is, libncurses) and not libtermcap. o /etc/termcap now provides hicolor variants of putty, xterm, rxvt, and screen. o /etc/termcap no longer provides the following entries and aliases, which were never supported by terminfo anyway and were therefore almost certainly broken, in practice: Removed Entries: other (use 'unknown') arpanet|bussiplexer|dialup|ethernet|network|net|patch|plugboard|switch (use 'unknown') pcansi-mono25 (use 'pcansi25m' terminfo; no termcap repl. provided) pcansi-mono33 (use 'pcansi33m' terminfo; no termcap repl. provided) pcansi-mono43 (use 'pcansi43m' terminfo; no termcap repl. provided) linux-mono (use 'linux-m' terminfo; no termcap repl. provided) Removed Aliases: print (use 'lpr' instead) printing (use 'lpr' instead) SC (use 'screen' instead) SH (use 'screen-s' instead) SB (use 'screen-bce' instead) ansisys (use 'ansi.sys' instead) ansi25 (use 'pcansi-25' instead) ansi33 (use 'pcansi-33' instead) ansi43 (use 'pcansi-43' instead) ansi-pc-color (use 'klone+color' instead) -- Charles Wilson volunteer terminfo maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain DOT com AT cygwin DOT com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple