[ale] Termcap entry

[Mir S Islam]

Oopps...!! Sorry I meant slackware 3.1 and Kernel 2.0.0 !! [BLUSH]

This is what I get when I try to start elm

You need a cursor-addressable terminal to run "elm" and I can't find any
kind of termcap entry for "dec-vt100" - check your "TERM" setting...


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> > 
> > Hi everyone, I recently upgraded to slacware 2.0.0. Since then I have been
> > facing all these termcap entry problems. I installed the terminfo.tgz pkg
> > found in one of the d series disks. That is supposed to have all the
> > terminal infos( if I am not mistaken). So, why cant I use a simple
> > dec-vt100 or vt220 terminal ? What did I do wrong ? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Slackware-2.0.0? What's that? Slackware-2.0 is over a year and a half old.
> Are you by chance confusing the Linux kernel version with a version of
> Slackware? I believe the latest version of Slackware is 3.1
> 
> The terminfo stuff is now part of ncurses and then there is the termcap file
> in /etc  Which one is your application trying to use?
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