Aha, it turns out that all he has in /usr/share is calendar, dict, and
doc.  He says he installed all the distribution sets he could find, but
I'm thinking he must have omitted one or more.  Which one would hold most
of that stuff?

Phil


On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Colin Wood wrote:

> Philip Brodd wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > A friend has just installed 1.4 on his 660av and is having trouble
> > entering a terminal type. (unfortunately I haven't seen this with my own
> > eyeballs, so I'll have to ask him for more details if necessary)
> > 
> > Apparently the install went off without a hitch.  He was able to do
> > 'export TERM=vt220' in single-user mode in order to edit /etc/rc.conf
> > using vi.  But after rebooting, it seems the system won't accept anything
> > he enters for a terminal type.
> > 
> > I thought this sounded like a case of not having done 'build devices', but
> > he says he did that.  Any ideas?  Thanks.
> 
> sounds to me that it's more like a case of /usr/share/misc/termcap not
> being there.  is there a file with a name anything close to that on his
> system?  there could be a fair number of reasons why this is the case...
> 
> -colin
>