On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Brown, Paul, BROWNPA2 wrote: > > > I've got Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 installed and working and have > > installed XFree86. It is working fine except for when it comes to > > displaying an xterm it says that is cannot find a usable TERMCAP > > entry. What does this mean and how can I fix it ? > > Install package termcap-compat from admin section.
No. This is an xterm problem... It annoyingly sets TERMCAP. Just put "unsetenv TERMCAP" in your .cshrc (or "export TERMCAP=" in your .bashrc and the problem will go away. You don't need termcap-compat for that... And so you very probably don't want it. Christian, termcap-compat maintainer.