Re: xterm not working

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 2009, Andy Koppe wrote:

> 2009/11/30 Thomas Dickey:
> > > > Â Gone for Thanksgiving break, return and update cygwin, and now xterm
> > > > does not show anymore. ÂI have not upgraded to the latest 1.7 (I am waiting
> > > > for the official release). ÂI read the other messages and nothing seems to
> > > > work.
> > > >
> > > > Â Does anyone have a SIMPLE solution to this problem.
> > >
> > > Downgrade the termcap package until there is another update thereto.
> >
> > I didn't see that one (what was the issue?)
>
> The latest termcap, which was automatically generated from terminfo,
> has entries longer than 1K in it.

ok... (I thought cygwin was using GNU termcap, which supposedly works
with longer entries - though I recall _that_ being fixed more than once).

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