[aklug] Re: terminal types and curses programming

Or.. be cool and stuff and do the diagnostics like a pro :)
1.) use strace and -o to poop a file of all system calls a program uses.

spencersr@undertow:~$ strace -o traceofevil nano

2.) .... exit out of nano or whatever ....

3.) use grep, search for the term name or if you're know what you're
looking for ('term') use that.

spencersr@undertow:~$ cat traceofevil | grep term
stat("/home/spencersr/.terminfo", 0x7fffcc1d1390) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
stat("/etc/terminfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
access("/etc/terminfo/x/xterm", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat("/lib/terminfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
access("/lib/terminfo/x/xterm", R_OK) = 0
open("/lib/terminfo/x/xterm", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\32\1\34\0\35\0\17\0\235\1&\5xterm|X11 terminal e"..., 4097) = 2244

4.) Rejoice!
Shane R. Spencer wrote:
> /usr/share/terminfo
>
> Christopher Howard wrote:
>> Would you guys please look at this question I posted on-line:
>>
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/programming-9/curses-terminal-application-699469/?posted=1#post3419418
>>
>

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