On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, John P. Looney wrote:
> I'm trying to shrink the size of the ncurses terminfo package's installed
> files.
>> I don't really want all the wierd ass terminals that it supports, and the
> disk space that needs.
>> xterm, vt100, vt52, vt220 and ansi will be sufficent, I think. Is there
Obviously, this depends on what you'll be doing. I stripped it right down
to just the 'linux' entry for a diskless workstation - which seems to
work. I stripped the termcap file down the same way - and that also
doesn't cause me any problems, but YMMV.
>> Kate
Ronan C.
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