Bug 3546 – Running screen from an X terminal gives a termcap warning

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Bug 3546 - Running screen from an X terminal gives a termcap warning

Summary:	Running screen from an X terminal gives a termcap warning

Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	screen (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1999-06-17 17:56 EDT by Brian Ryner
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-08-31 15:21:59 EDT
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Description Brian Ryner 1999-06-17 17:56:51 EDT

If I start screen from an X terminal (such as
gnome-terminal), I get the message:

tgetent: warning: termcap entry too long

Screen still works though.  I'm using the updated screen
package (screen-3.7.6-9).

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-06-17 18:37:59 EDT

Hm... that message is actually from bash. Dunno why it pops
up there and not on the console.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-17 18:42:59 EDT

It's a warning from libtermcap that the termcap entry
for screen is over 1023 bytes.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-08-31 15:21:59 EDT

fixed in libtermcap-2.0.8-17, in next Raw Hide release.

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