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From: T.E.Dickey <dickey@explorer2.clark.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: terminfo database
Date: 18 Jul 1997 09:57:34 GMT
Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA
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Patrick McConnell <patrick@interlog.com> wrote:
: I have a FreeBSD 2.2.2-R machine and a Linux machine. I'm trying to set
: them up so that they recognise each other's console terminals, ie 'linux'
: and 'cons25'. My problem is that I can't find the terminfo db on the
: FreeBSD machine. There is a man page for terminfo that says it's in
: /usr/lib/terminfo/*/* (same as Linux), but that directory doesn't exist on
: my computer. How can I update terminfo?
terminfo is bundled with the more recent versions of ncurses (since 1.8.8 or
thereabouts)

The current version of ncurses is 4.1
There's an faq at
	http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
dickey@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey