From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 22 01:55:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E5F4349 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173015pub.verizon.net (vms173015pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.15]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DA82B62 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:55:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([unknown] [96.255.10.65]) by vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0MWN00K5B6N60912@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:54:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (aerie [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id rAM1sge3018605 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:54:42 -0500 Received: (from tom@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id rAM1sglc018603; Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:54:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 20:54:42 -0500 From: Thomas Dickey To: "illoai@gmail.com" Subject: Re: TERM / termcap / terminfo & st from suckless tools Message-id: <20131122015442.GC18511@aerie.jexium-island.net> References: <20131121142714.GA13341@rpaisley.com> <20131121173850.GA41334@SeanLaptop.webcheckout.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary=5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw Content-disposition: inline In-reply-to: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Sean DuBois , Rob Paisley , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list Reply-To: dickey@his.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 01:55:11 -0000 --5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:54:15PM -0500, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > Resorted to rxvt-256color, because, despite toe -a showing st-256color, > it simply doesn't work. (toe also dumps core, so there's that) FreeBSD doesn't by default use terminfo. It stores the bulk of its data in a different database. > And: > > tic -c /usr/local/share/misc/terminfo.db tic processes text-files (the manpage says "source format"). terminfo.db is not a text file. > "/usr/local/share/misc/terminfo.db", line 18, col 1: Illegal character > (expected alphanumeric or @%&*!#) - '^C' sounds about right. --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlKOuWIACgkQcCNT4PfkjtvWkACePac76GckDYSPQScDo7A0fu6U fjUAnR/tlBWtX8mK9esKYeO1+dLbldIE =SIYv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5G06lTa6Jq83wMTw--