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Subject: Re: configure bug in 19.15 final, and problem with BSD/OS binary kit
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sb> == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>

 ckd> The BSD/OS binary kit problem: because of the preceding, you have to
 ckd> have terminfo descriptions for your terminals or TTY mode doesn't
 ckd> work.

 sb> You mean it shouldn't have autodetected and used ncurses instead of
 sb> native BSD curses?

Oh, sure it should have.  But that means that everyone using the binary
kit needs to set up terminfo descriptions for their terminals, since
BSD/OS doesn't come with terminfo by default, and ncurses (at least the
version that got compiled into that binary kit) wants terminfo and not
termcap.

If you try to run it on a more stock BSD/OS 2.1 system it will complain
that your terminal is unknown.

I'm building a new one and I'm going to actually be able to test it on
another 2.1 machine this time...

