help for a micro distro

Hi,
i'm trying to build a micro distro puttin' my favourite tools onto two 
floppy disks and i would like to use nano also, but when i launch 'nano' 
it doesn't open its window telling: "Error opening terminal: linux." and 
quits.
So, what does this error mean? i really don't know. I have the 
environment variable TERM=linux and the file /etc/termcap does contain 
an entry called linux, what am i missing? Do i need some particular file?
Thank you,
topolinik

Re: help for a micro distro

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:25:40PM +0200, Elio Blanca wrote:
> Hi,
> i'm trying to build a micro distro puttin' my favourite tools onto two 
> floppy disks and i would like to use nano also, but when i launch 'nano' 
> it doesn't open its window telling: "Error opening terminal: linux." and 
> quits.
> So, what does this error mean? i really don't know. I have the 
> environment variable TERM=linux and the file /etc/termcap does contain 
> an entry called linux, what am i missing? Do i need some particular file?
> Thank you,
> topolinik

Hello,

	It's likely that ncurses was configured to use terminfo by 
default, so you would need the file /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux.  Check 
the manual page for ncurses, there may be a way to tell the library to 
only use termcap without a recompile.  

Chris A
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Suppressing the trailing newline / linefeed

Hi all.

Could anyone please tell me whether there is anyway to suppress the newline/linefeed which is normally
added to the end of a saved text file. In more detail, when I use nano (version 1.3.8, on Ubuntu 5.10), I enter
the text "123" and then use ctrl-O to save the file. If I then exit from nano and view the file using "od -tx1",
the result is:

user <at> machine:~$ od -tx1 myFile
0000000 31 32 33 0a
0000004
user <at> machine:~$

I would like to know whether there is any way to stop the addition of the linefeed character to the end of the
file (such as a compile-time option, an invocation option, or some other command).

Thank you,

Jaime 

Re: Suppressing the trailing newline / linefeed

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 02:01:11 +0100, re2823 <at> Safe-mail.net wrote:
> Could anyone please tell me whether there is anyway to suppress the 
> newline/linefeed which is normally added to the end of a saved text

	you can try cat > file
	press ctrl+d to end the file, before pressing enter

	AFAIK, no plain text editor dont add the newline, only hexeditors
	(or emacs maybe, as it have everything in it 8)

	good luck
higuita
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