On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-08-22 12:45 +0200, Alain Greppin wrote:
Package: ncurses-bin
Version: 5.7+20081213-1
Severity: normal
example follows:
$ infotocap /lib/terminfo/v/vt100
"/lib/terminfo/v/vt100", line 1, col 1: Illegal character (expected
alphanumeric or @%&*!#) - '^Z'
Like tic, infotocap only works with terminfo sources as input, not with
compiled terminfo files. It has to be conceded that the manpage does
not really make this clear.
It's clear if one realizes that a terminal description is a "terminfo
source". But confusion on this detail has been longstanding, and not
limited to infotocap. I've also seen people attempting to run tic on
files in the terminal database.
Since the confusion is very specific, it might be useful to add a check
to the source-reader which immediately errors out if the "source" begins
with the magic code corresponding to compiled entries.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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