In article <CCDK5s.6nL@sybase.com>, mwarren@cedar.sybase.com (Mark Warren) writes:
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>I tryed compiling pcomm using ncurses, and when I started it,
>the only thing it did was to print the message
>
>       couldn't open file.
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Try 'strace pcomm'  when you want to check what's *really* going on..

I had the same problem for an ncurses based program.  strace gave me:
open("/usr/lib/terminfo/x/xterm", RDONLY) = -1 (No such file or directory)
write(2, "couldn't open file.\n", 20couldn't open file.
) = 20

Seems like ncurses wants an unknown terminfo file.. probably something
that has to be installed.

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