Xenix Terminfo Question

Hendrik Vermooten hendrik at zeusa.UUCP
Wed Nov 21 14:26:26 AEST 1990


> Jeff Holmes	                  DOMAIN: jeff at questar.mn.org 
> 	buf = tigetstr("acsc");
> 	In the above call, tigetstr() ALWAYS returns (char *)NULL.
> 	The same call on our Pyramid RETURNS the "acsc=" string.
> 	It seems as though in Xenix tigetstr() CAN'T or WON'T GET
> 	the "acsc=" string. tigetstr() will return other strings
> 	fine (i.e. sgr=).

Xenix tic is Sys V.2, not Sys V.3. I had the same problem, but solved
it by loading SCO *UNIX* V.3.2's tic program onto XENIX!
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