Re: ncurses and terminal definitions

[Terry Dabbs <tdabbs at staktek dot com>]

Thanks for the help. Since your advice kept me from having to "install" cygwin
on the machines I'm going to run this on, the mounting, I suppose defaults to
what it was on my compiling machine, which is the C drive for cygwin in my case.

Thanks.

Larry Hall wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:47:13PM -0400, Larry Hall wrote:
> >
> >>Hi Terry,
> >>
> >>Don't know exactly what accounts for the performance drain you see with
> >>98.  Like you say, could be just a slow machine.  You'd have to debug it
> >>to know for sure.
> >>
> >>One point.  /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin == c:\usr\share\terminfo\c\cygwin
> >>only if the Cygwin root mount point (/) == c:\.  As you can see, you get
> >>this for free if your current drive is c: but that's not guaranteed.  You
> >>may want to add one step and one binary to your installation procedure.
> >>That is, after plopping the files down where you want them, invoke the
> >>following:
> >>
> >> mount -s c:/ /
> >>
> >>This will require privileges to write to the system hive of the registry.
> >>If you don't have this right or can't get it, you can omit the '-s' flag,
> >>but the mount will only be available for the current user.  You will need
> >>to repeat the command (minus the '-s') for all the users that need your
> >>application on that machine.  You don't need to leave 'mount' on the
> >>machine after installation.
> >
> >
> > Larry - mount defaults to "-s" these days.  If you want user-mode mounts,
> > you need to use "-u".
>
> Heh.  Right.  Sorry about that.
>
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