[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora 2 termcap/ncurses issue

[terry]

Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> I've been messing around with fedora core 2 for a while now and I'm
> wondering if I'm the only one with this problem.  Apparently, ncurses is way
> messed up in fedora.  When I ssh in from my windows box and use anything
> that has to do with ncurses I get unreadable text on the screen and
> characters that don't make sense.  I've force ncurses-extra terms from a
> mandrake install as this has fixed similar problem in mandrake with no luck.
> Is there a fix for this in fedora?
> 
> My term type is cygwin and the /etc/termcap file matches the file from
> mandrake as well as the file /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin.  The mandrake
> system works fine with my test of
> 
> dialog --yesno "  work dambit" 10 18
> 
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Do you have both ncurses & ncurses-devel installed?