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Re: ncurses and terminal definitions


Larry,

I just copied the path so the file is c:\usr\share\terminfo\c\cygwin directly
from the machine I compile with. This does work, and cygwin, yet again, has
made my little project happier. I do note that the laptop running win98 I
tried this on took a good 20 seconds to give up the terminal to the program.
Is this just because the lap top is slow (it is...) or is win98 simply that
poor compared to NT in performance. The delay on NT, if any, is not
perceptable....

Thanks,

Terry Dabbs

Larry Hall wrote:

> Terry Dabbs wrote:
>
> > I've been using gcc to compile some simple applications for NT win98 and
> > win95 for automating machinery. I have a problem on one screen where you
> > can't read the command.com screen (windows98) clearly, so I loaded
> > ncurses, redid the application so it the text is very bright and
> > colorful even on the poor screen. Very nice.
> > The problem is, I was up to now only needing to place the cygwin1.dll on
> > each machine I put a program on, and that's all, with the exception of
> > the executable and miscellaneous setup files. I thought I would only
> > have to place the cygncurses7.dll on the machines as well.
> > I moved the executable and placed cygncurses7.dll on a machine, tried
> > it, and got "Error opening terminal: cygwin". I read references to this
> > in the mailing lists, which say do an "install" on each machine with
> > multiple packages using setup.
> > For a number of reasons I wish to avoid this, the least of which is they
> > are not on the net.
> > What is the least amount of files I need, and where should I put them
> > for ncurses to identify the terminal on the machines I need to put my
> > executable? Can you help?
>
> It's just looking for the 'cygwin' terminal database.  You can find that
> in /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin.
>
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