Maybe this is something Christian Swinehart should be informed about. On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 17:00, Viktor Haag wrote: > Viktor Haag writes: > > > > Just thought of something: I fired up a vanilla xterm and > > tried 'emacs -nw', and ran into the same error: > > > > emacs: Cannot open termcap database file > > > > I have ncurses installed through fink, and I have TERMINFO > > pointed (now) to /sw/share/terminfo. > > > > But emacs still "cannot open termcap database file". > > > > Seems like there's something more seriously going on here; > > perhaps this is a "building Emacs21 on 10.2" problem? > > Another oddism: 10.2's own version of Emacs (21.1) does work fine > inside a term window (but of course it seems to be a nox build, > so it can't apparently be used inside X). > > (Sigh, looking forward to the day when Apple (or GNU) will provide > an easy, out of the box OSX binary that will use the native > windowing system as with NT Emacs. 8)) > > -- > Viktor Haag : Software & Information Design : Research In Motion > +--+ > "It will take several years before the big machine dies, but > inevitably the big machine will die." > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 57
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