Open-source Languages & Tools for z/OS

Hi, Yaroslav. I’m a bit confused - you said “install this database”, then “you can not install a new database”. Do you mean that it’s safe for me to do the gzip and tic commands?

I’m a relative newbie to terminfo/ncurses/etc, but the man page indicates that tic will read the terminfo.src file and produce a new terminfo database in the directory pointed to by the TERMINFO environment variable.

This worked for me:

export TERMINFO=$HOME/terminfo  # This will be your personal terminfo database
mkdir $TERMINFO
curl ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz | gzip -d >terminfo.src
tic terminfo.src

Thanks, Jerry, but the universe has decreed that I’m not to have colors today:

16:45 /u/tstjv > gzip -d terminfo.src.gz
gzip: terminfo.src.gz: not in gzip format

This happens when I pipe the curl output into gzip as well.

Edit: Maybe I’m just cranky, but it feels as if this stuff should be available to everyone without having to go to an external website. In fact …

16:53 /u/tstjv > ls /usr/lib/share/terminfo
ls: FSUM6785 File or directory "/usr/lib/share/terminfo" is not found

… despite the fact that the z/OS UNIX System Services Planning manual says that “[t]he database is in the directory /usr/share/lib/terminfo …”