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    From teleman@mail@interlinked.x10host.com to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Mar 15 16:04:16 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    Does anyone know if there is an "official" terminfo file for syncterm?

    Most (if not all) systems don't have one by default, which causes
    programs to fail when executing them using SyncTERM. I've solved this in
    the past by copying another terminfo file and naming it syncterm. Today,
    I tried using what I thought was the "official" terminfo file for the
    project, but it seems to be slightly off, as when I run programs in
    SyncTERM, some of the rows and things are slightly broken (though it
    mostly works).

    cd /tmp
    wget https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/raw/master/install/termcap
    -O /tmp/syncterm_terminfo
    sed -i 's/ansi-bbs/syncterm/' /tmp/syncterm_terminfo
    tic -s syncterm_terminfo

    Is there a better terminfo file to use that will make SyncTERM work
    properly?

    Thanks!
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  • From Digital Man to teleman on Fri Mar 15 13:57:06 2024
    Re: syncterm terminfo file
    By: teleman to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Mar 15 2024 04:04 pm

    Is there a better terminfo file to use that will make SyncTERM work properly?

    This is a question best asked of the SyncTERM project owner (Deuce) who doesn't regularly read message bases. You can find him in #synchronet at irc.synchro.net much of the time or post an issue/question to syncterm.sf.net.
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  • From teleman@mail@interlinked.x10host.com to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Mar 15 18:03:36 2024
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    On 3/15/2024 4:57 PM, Digital Man wrote:
    To: teleman
    Re: syncterm terminfo file
    By: teleman to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Mar 15 2024 04:04 pm

    > Is there a better terminfo file to use that will make SyncTERM work
    > properly?

    This is a question best asked of the SyncTERM project owner (Deuce) who doesn't regularly read message bases. You can find him in #synchronet at irc.synchro.net much of the time or post an issue/question to syncterm.sf.net.

    Thanks, do you know if syncterm.sf.net is still active? It seems to
    redirect to syncterm.bbsdev.net now (not sure what was there before),
    and I'm not seeing a way to post questions anywhere there...
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  • From Digital Man to teleman on Fri Mar 15 16:42:31 2024
    Re: Re: syncterm terminfo file
    By: teleman to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Mar 15 2024 06:03 pm

    Thanks, do you know if syncterm.sf.net is still active? It seems to
    redirect to syncterm.bbsdev.net now (not sure what was there before),
    and I'm not seeing a way to post questions anywhere there...

    Yes, see the links on that page with the text:
    Please file bug reports at the SourceForge bug tracker and feature requests in the Feature Request tracker.
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    Karl Childers (to father): You ought not killed my little brother...
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  • From MRO@BBSESINF to teleman on Sat Mar 16 02:28:04 2024
    Re: Re: syncterm terminfo file
    By: teleman to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Mar 15 2024 06:03 pm

    Thanks, do you know if syncterm.sf.net is still active? It seems to

    HAH! sourceforge.

    redirect to syncterm.bbsdev.net now (not sure what was there before),
    and I'm not seeing a way to post questions anywhere there...

    you can email the author or leave him a msg on his bbs even.
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  • From MRO@BBSESINF to all on Sat Mar 16 02:30:27 2024
    Re: Re: syncterm terminfo file
    By: teleman to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Mar 15 2024 06:03 pm

    redirect to syncterm.bbsdev.net now (not sure what was there before),


    glad he left the toggle in for the under construction version.
    new one looks like a mystic bbs theme.
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  • From nelgin@EOTLBBS to All on Sun Mar 17 01:37:57 2024
    On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:57:06 -0700
    "Digital Man" (VERT) <VERT!Digital.Man@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    Re: syncterm terminfo file
    By: teleman to alt.bbs.synchronet on Fri Mar 15 2024 04:04 pm

    Is there a better terminfo file to use that will make SyncTERM work properly?

    This is a question best asked of the SyncTERM project owner (Deuce)
    who doesn't regularly read message bases. You can find him in
    #synchronet at irc.synchro.net much of the time or post an
    issue/question to syncterm.sf.net.

    Deuce answered this on #synchronet earlier. If you run syncterm with
    just the -T option it'll spit out a tic that can be redirected to a
    file such as syncterm.tic
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