Judah Jacobson wrote:
Strange; it seems like terminfo isn't looking in the right location for the xterm files. Incidentally, the "dumb" terminal settings may be deficient when you type a line longer than the terminal width.
What OS is this? Did you download and install (n)curses manually?
SunOS 5.10 Generic_137112-07 i86pc i386 i86pc In fact ncurses was the problem. My LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointed to a copied version of libncurses.so.5 (pointing to libncurses.so.5.6) that was later replaced by our admins (maybe they've noticed such a problem, too). Now it works. Thanks and sorry for the trouble.
Can you use some program to monitor the filesystem (for example, fs_usage on OS X) and see where the program is looking for the terminfo databases?
(I didn't find something) Cheers Christian