# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1010139304 0
# Node ID 72a5aec83cabf005fdd055d060c13fefb7cca844
# Parent  bb48a7a20534534701a011b4789002f228f669a8
Suggest to upgrade ncurses if Emacs aborts inside tparam1.

diff -r bb48a7a20534 -r 72a5aec83cab etc/PROBLEMS
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Jan 04 08:27:11 2002 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Jan 04 10:15:04 2002 +0000
@@ -217,6 +217,18 @@
 a good way of implementing it with widgets).  If Emacs is configured
 --without-toolkit-scroll-bars, C-mouse-2 on the scroll bar does work.
 
+* Emacs aborts inside the function `tparam1'.
+
+This can happen if Emacs was built without terminfo support, but the
+terminal's capabilities use format that is only supported by terminfo.
+If your system has ncurses installed, this might happen if your
+version of ncurses is broken; upgrading to a newer version of ncurses
+and reconfiguring and rebuilding Emacs should solve this.
+
+All modern systems support terminfo, so even if ncurses is not the
+problem, you should look for a way to configure Emacs so that it uses
+terminfo when built.
+
 * Colors are not available on a tty or in xterm.
 
 Emacs 21 supports colors on character terminals and terminal