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Date:      Sat, 31 Aug 2002 00:04:44 +0200
From:      Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@schweikhardt.net>
To:        "Vladimir B.  Grebenschikov" <vova@sw.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CURRENT's termcap broken
Message-ID:  <20020831000444.A870@schweikhardt.net>
In-Reply-To: <1030626197.842.77.camel@vbook.express.ru>
References:  <20020828124821.GA6231@starjuice.net> <20020828190424.A1294@schweikhardt.net> <20020828173532.GA64845@starjuice.net> <20020828203206.C1294@schweikhardt.net> <20020828190918.GA37295@starjuice.net> <20020828214105.D1294@schweikhardt.net> <200208281946.g7SJksgI019098@intruder.bmah.org> <1030626197.842.77.camel@vbook.express.ru>

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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 05:03:17PM +0400, Vladimir B.  Grebenschikov wrote:
# ? Wed, 28.08.2002, ? 23:46, Bruce A. Mah ???????:
# > If memory serves me right, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
# > 
# > > # Do you have time to commit mention of it to UPDATING?  If so, please
# > > # draw Bruce Mah's attention to the delta so that he can steal your text
# > > # for use in the release notes.  If not, I'll get around to it eventually.
# > > # :-)
# > > 
# > > I just added a note to src/UPDATING. Bruce, are you listening
# > > for the release notes?
# > > 
# > > 20020827:
# > >        Our /etc/termcap now has all the entries from the XFree86 xterm
# > >        almost unchanged. This means xterm now supports color by default.
# > >        If you used TERM=xterm-color in the past you now should use
# > >        TERM=xterm. (xterm-color will lead to benign warnings).
# > 
# 
# After this update, xterm-color produce warnings:
# vbook:/home/vova 129_> mc
# "TERMCAP", line 0, terminal 'xterm-color': enter_alt_charset_mode but no
# acs_chars
# "TERMCAP", line 0, terminal 'xterm-color': exit_alt_charset_mode but no
# acs_chars
# 
# and midnight commander shows all with -, +, | instead of
# pesudo-graphics.

It seems this is the price we pay for alignment with what XFree86 ships.

# Ok I have tried setenv TERM xterm, midnight commander now black and
# white, where I have mistaken ?

I just installed the misc/mc package from 4.6 and midc is fully colored
under xterm, rxvt and the console. Do you have a stale termcap.db?
Does midc use/read some config file that says "no color"?

Regards,

	Jens
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