From: cjm18 AT psu DOT edu (Christopher Murray) Subject: vim/networking trouble solved - reveals terminfo gotcha 29 Jan 1999 08:44:45 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990129083830.009aa880.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.psu.edu> References: <199901290417 DOT XAA119468 AT f04n01 DOT cac DOT psu DOT edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi all, In a previous message, I complained about whenever I would start up vim in console mode, it would bring up a WinNT dialup networking dialog box. The suggestions a few of you gave was just enough to put me on the right path to figuring out what was going on. Thanks. Turns out, the dialog box was telling me it couldn't find the .terminfo file. Terminfo looks for this file in $HOME/.terminfo. Well, as it turns out, my configuration is such that I just make / my home directory. Well, this resolves to //.terminfo, which apparently looks like a network path to the OS - hence the dialog box. All I had to do was create an actual home directory, and all worked perfectly. One of the byproducts was that it significantly sped up the time for vim to startup - I guess it spent alot of time trying to deal with a non-existent network path. Obviously, the nature of the problem was such that any program using terminfo would have seen this weird behavior. Starting up the curses version of tcsh verified this. Anyway, I just wanted to disseminate the knowledge to others and make sure it makes it to the archives so that others might benefit from my experience. This Cygwin will make NT a bearable experience yet!! Has anyone taken a look at the new NT/UNIX product put out by Interex? Their claim, if I am not mistaken, is that it allows NT to be classified as a true UNIX operating system under the UNIX 95 & 98 standards (pending approval from the Open Group). To bad it also costs an arm and a leg. They also mention rumors of a plan by Microsoft to subvert Linux with a product of their own called "Winux". Ha - Let 'em just try! Thanks, Chris *************************************************************************** Christopher Murray Applied Research Laboratory Assistant Research Engineer The Pennsylvania State University Work Phone: (814) 865-2016 P.O. Box 30 Home Phone: (814) 231-2125 State College, PA 16804 Work Fax: (814) 863-1479 Email: cjm18 AT psu DOT edu v1.2a r+d>s TW 1/0/pw tG 12? 0 Animals 3 2 57.5% <16dec98> *************************************************************************** - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".