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dstaudigel · 2002-12-26 6:56 pm

My Terminal is b0rked eek

Basically, every app that is interactive (by that I mean vi, pico, ettercap...), fails, and the terminal launches up with this distressing message:

Code:

Last login: Thu Dec 26 16:47:27 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
tcsh: Cannot open /etc/termcap.
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
[daedalus:~] daedalus%

My .tcshrc file:

Code:

[daedalus:~] daedalus% cat .tcshrc
#!/bin/csh

source /usr/share/tcsh/examples/rc
setenv PATH ~/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin:/Users/daedalus/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/Users/GMT/GMT3.4.1/bin/
setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH

Anything anybody can tell me? I want my terminal back! sad

Daniel Staudigel

Buzzword · 2002-12-26 8:13 pm

Well, do you have an /etc/termcap? Type "ls -lh /etc/termcap", what do you get from that? Also, what does "ls -lh /etc/.termcap.swp" give?

dstaudigel · 2002-12-26 11:11 pm

Neither file exists... what?

thekingalrock · 2002-12-26 11:14 pm

Comment out the "source /usr/share/tcsh/examples/rc" part and see what happens. Try using screen or linux as your $TERM.

Buzzword · 2002-12-27 3:13 am

A little bit from my /etc/termcap:

#
# PURPOSE OF THIS FILE:
#
# This file describes the capabilities of various character-cell terminals,
# as needed by software such as screen-oriented editors.
#
# Other terminfo and termcap files exist, supported by various OS vendors
# or as relics of various older versions of UNIX. This one is the longest
# and most comprehensive one in existence. It subsumes not only the entirety
# of the historical 4.4BSD, GNU, System V and SCO termcap files and the BRL
# termcap file, but also large numbers of vendor-maintained termcap and
# terminfo entries more complete and carefully tested than those in historical
# termcap/terminfo versions.
#
# Pointers to related resources (including the ncurses distribution) may
# be found at <http://www.tuxedo.org/terminfo>.

That sounds important. I'm using Linux, not OS X, but you probably should have that file. I don't know what happened to it. Could someone with OS X maybe confirm whether or not this file exists for yous types, and if it does, upload it for dstaudigel?

Pro_ · 2003-01-12 1:32 am

no termcap file here, and vi works as well as lynx for interactive programs.

dstaudigel · 2003-01-12 1:35 am

Well, just reinstalled. Works fine now...

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#1 2002-12-26 6:56 pm

Terminal VT100 (or whatever) Busted

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