I just seem to be missing a termcap/terminfo database (for anything, really -- a "find /" turns up nothing). Am I missing something obvious here?

Everything is a "error opening terminal: " (xterm or ansi or vt100 or ....)....

Copying /usr/share/terminfo from another system gave me good output. From a remote 80x24 terminal, I had no problem -- from the 50x14 (or so) local xterm I had a very quick exit.

I'd guess "btscanner" hard codes things to 80x24?