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I want to use screen-256color term and my system does not have one, so I compiled it in my home dir. Following is my problem 

xxxx: ~/.terminfo > tree
.
|-- s
|   `-- screen-256color
`-- x
    `-- xterm-256color

2 directories, 2 files
xxxx: ~/.terminfo > setenv TERMINFO ~/.terminfo
xxxx: ~/.terminfo > setenv TERM  screen-256color
csh: No entry for terminal type "screen-256color"
csh: using dumb terminal settings.

It seems that the system can not detect the screen-256color file?

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On most Linux's, terminfo has replaced termcap. However, some were slow to replace termcap with terminfo for a few applications such as csh/tcsh (such as Slackware). If that is the case, it is likely looking for an entry in /etc/termcap

You can check this easily by looking at the libraries listed for

ldd `which csh`
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