Re: Problem with keys

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 09:10:45AM -0700, galapogos wrote:
> Thanks. I was wondering if it were a termcap/terminfo problem. I've looked
> around the other system and found a termcap file in /etc. What should I do
> so that the break key doesn't get translated into the raw ASCII values, i.e.
> doesn't show up when isascii() is called on it?

ncurses usually reads terminfo (in a different location).
It can be told to look for termcap first.
To see what it's found, use infocmp, which lists the location in the
first line, e.g.,

#       Reconstructed via infocmp from file: 
/usr/local/ncurses/lib/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-new

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