Problem with Curses

[Klaus-Juergen Wolf]

T.E.Dickey <dickey at shell.clark.net> wrote:
 >>> It depends on when the executable is linked to libmytinfo, which only
 >>> takes place on platforms that don't know the terminfo database, like
 >>> BSD and Solaris; there are two competing declarations of tputs().

 >> Why doesn't Freebsd know the terminfo database? Can't the one that is 
 >> integrated into ncurses be used on FreeBSD? 

 > I've been told ncurses 4.2 is incorporated in the FreeBSD 3.1 - but that
 > may still just be a port...

Yes, there is such a port. Do you think, one could release code that
works on several machines, while some of them must install a special
program first?

cu
 k.j.

PS: It wouldn't have worked anyway.

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