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From: Gert Menke <g.menke@×××.net>
To: makoto@×××××××××××.jp
Cc: gentoo-user@g.o, gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] annoying delays in screen since last update
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 11:11:15
Message-Id: 20020828161030.GA26982@mouse.mydomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] annoying delays in screen since last update by makoto@dsb.club.ne.jp
1 Hi,
2
3 On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 12:34:21AM +0900, makoto@×××××××××××.jp wrote:
4 > From: Gert Menke <g.menke@×××.net>
5 > > Since I last did an update world, app-misc/screen started to wait about 5
6 > > seconds everytime I start it and everytime I open a new window. This is
7 > You can easily resolve the problem if you remove (or rename)
8 > /etc/termcap. It comes along with new sys-apps/baselayout.
9 > It seems that screen is parsing /etc/termcap in the delay time.
10
11 Thank you, this helps.
12
13 But isn't an /etc/termcap a good thing to have? Why does it suddenly take
14 so long to parse it? Perhaps it has been replaced with a much bigger
15 version than before during the last baselayout update? It's 16k lines long
16 which seems quite huge...
17
18 Regards,
19 Gert

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