Updating terminfo entries on OS X

I’ve had Top Gun SSH for my Treo installed for a while now, but it always looked bad because I needed to install the right term entries, whatever that was. I finally figured that out today.

The easiest way is to just get the latest mater list and update all of them into my local account. I think if I were to run this as root, it would update the entries /usr/share, but I’m not feeling that brave.

In the end, it came down to this:

wget http://catb.org/~esr/terminfo/termtypes.ti.gz
gunzip termtypes.ti.gz
tic termtypes.ti
rm termtypes.ti

That’s it. Then I run ‘screen’ once I log in and I can be mobile AND dangerous.

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