From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7319 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2001 12:32:35 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 5 Sep 2001 12:32:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 19873 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2001 12:32:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4194 Received: (qmail 19851 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2001 12:32:07 -0000 Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 05:32:05 -0700 From: Will Yardley To: Zsh Users Subject: termcap Message-ID: <20010905053205.F4009@hq.newdream.net> Mail-Followup-To: Zsh Users Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organization: New Dream Network so this may be a dumb question, but i haven't been able to find any documentation that addresses this. i installed my own terminfo directory in $HOME/share/terminfo in bash, i can do: [sepia]$ echo $TERMINFO /home/will/share/terminfo [sepia]$ export TERM=xterm-xfree86 [sepia]$ echo $TERM xterm-xfree86 but in zsh: sepia% echo $TERMINFO /home/will/share/terminfo sepia% export TERM=xterm-xfree86 zsh: can't find termcap info for xterm-xfree86 ˆ‰% this machine doesn't have zsh so i'm running zsh from $HOME/bin/ did i need to tell zsh the location of terminfo when i compiled it? do i just need to set different environment variables? if termcap is needed, i have a current copy of that in $HOME/etc/termcap i'm having the same problem with tcsh, so i'm assuming there's just some variable i need to set. -w -- Sintax error in config file! (line 378) aborted! PGP Public Key: http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/