Re: Freebsd 14+ -- tcsh incompatible with terminfo

Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:

> If you don't install (terminfo-db which nothing should pull in by default), then
> you are on the default behaviour which is termcap, this has been made like this
> on purpose, by default you have the behaviour you have always expected, and if
> you want another behaviour and larger support you install terminfo-db.
>
> The fact that tcsh does not play nicely with terminfo, is nother problem.

Thanks for the clarification. I had mistakingly thought many things pulled in
terminfo-db, but it appears to be only deskutils/arttime that does so, so it's
not as serious as I thought.

As for tcsh, I'll work on getting it fixed upstream.

Cheers, Jamie