In message <19980322.143151.58@xx1548.thefree.net>
          cg110@york.ac.uk (Chris Gilbert) wrote:

> In message <4e8b8a2a48%tonyh@tonyh.tcp.co.uk> you wrote:
>
> > I'm having problems with termcap under X. Some programs are complaining
> > that they can't find a termcap entry, irc-II can't find one "for
> > network" and gives up (but it works on the console), joe says something
> > that doesn't stay put long enough to read because it carries on OK.
>
> This surprises me as I thought that netbsd had a fairly complete termcap
> database, the one I've got is about 500k for the file, and 1.4Mb for the
> db file in /usr/share/misc/  What does your TERM variable say? Perhaps
> you've got something that's picking up the wrong type of terminal.

I found out TERM was set to "network", but I've got no idea why (see my
other post).

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