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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>
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Subject: ncurses port doesn't support TERM=xterm-color
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>Number:         7314
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       ncurses port doesn't support TERM=xterm-color
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    andy@icc.surw.chel.su
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jul 18 12:10:00 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Sat May 8 18:07:49 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Sat May  8 18:08:12 PDT 1999
>Originator:     David O'Brien
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386
>Organization:
The FreeBSD Project
>Environment:

ncurses package from packages-stable of July 5th

>Description:

	The "xterm-color" terminal type is unsupported by the ncurses
	4.2 port.  One of the reasons to use ncurses is for color support.

	bash# export TERM=xterm-color
	bash# type clear
	/usr/bin/clear
	bash# pkg_add ncurses-4.2.tgz
	bash# type clear
	/usr/local/bin/clear
	bash# /usr/local/bin/clear
	'xterm-color': unknown terminal type.
	bash# /usr/bin/clear
	'xterm-color': unknown terminal type.
	bash# pkg_delete ncurses-4.2.tgz
	bash# clear
	(the screen is cleared properly)
	
>How-To-Repeat:

	see above

>Fix:
	
	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->andy@icc.surw.chel.su 
Responsible-Changed-By: jkoshy 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue May 4 03:47:18 PDT 1999 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to port maintainer. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: steve 
State-Changed-When: Sat May 8 18:07:49 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Fixed as a part of ports/11492. 
>Unformatted:
