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From: salantel@wsqtb9.crd.ge.com (E. L. Salant)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: creating a termlib entry from termcaps
Keywords: curses, DecStation
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Date: 14 Feb 91 18:43:47 GMT
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Organization: General Electric Corp. R&D, Schenectady, NY
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I am trying to run a cursesX application on our new DecStation 5000, and have
found that there is no termlib entry for an xterm.  I therefore took the 
termcap entry and did a tic -v on it.  While the tic command seemed to work ok
(it created an xterm directory in /usr/lib/terminfo/x), when I try running my
curses application I get from initscr() "Sorry, I don't know how to deal with
your `xterm` terminal".

Why isn't it finding the xterm entry in termlib??
Please respond directly to me at the address above and thanks for your help.
- Eliot Salant