Re: Just noticed my midnight commander is broken

[Todd Suess <tsuess@tsuess.evcom.net>]

I tried as you suggested, with export TERM=xterm and now mc
works as normal.  interesting.   Should a bug report be filed
against something?

Thanks!

Todd



On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> * "Todd" == Todd Suess <tsuess@tsuess.evcom.net> wrote:
> 
> Todd> Already running 5.0-4.  This is the strace output, if it helps at all.
> 
>  open("/usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-color", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT
>  (No such file or directory)
> 
>  open("/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
>  such file or directory)
> 
> Hmm. I only have /etc/terminfo/x/xterm-color
> 
> Maybe it is missing in ncurses-base.
> 
> Can you try export TERM=xterm and try again?  This fits to the other
> report in -user, that mc works on a VX (TERM=linux), but not in X.
> 
> Ciao,
>         Martin