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What does this mean?
Authored by: kirkmc on Nov 13, '02 10:30:23AM

When running the command in the tip, I get the following:

tcsh: Cannot open /etc/termcap.
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.

What does that mean?

Kirk



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RE: What does this mean?
Authored by: nvdingo on Nov 13, '02 12:22:37PM

It means that you don't have an /etc/termcap file, which is where the information about what colors to use for what comes from.

I don't either, and the hint caused problems. i couldn't even get into 'vi' again to edit it out of my .cshrc file until i did setenv TERM "ansi" (i guessed randomly and vi would run again.)

setting it to ansi does not give you colors, but at least the shell and apps like vi understood the TERM type.

I don't know where to get the termcap file either. sorry.



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What does this mean?
Authored by: agengler on Nov 13, '02 01:58:16PM

I had the same problem. It turns out that for some reason os 10.2 didn't put a termcap in /usr/share/misc

I was lucky to have some email me their termcap and I put it there and now everything works fine.



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Re: Missing File
Authored by: Whisper on Nov 13, '02 02:21:15PM

Any ideas as to where everyone else can get a termcap file?



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