On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chris Green wrote:
> I have mutt installed on three systems with S-Lang and colour working
> OK. The fourth system that I have it installed doesn't have the
> S-Lang libraries and I'd really prefer not to have to build them
> myself (and use up quota there).
>
> So, how do I get mutt to work in colour under ncurses? I telnet into
> it from an rxvt terminal window (as for two of the other three mutt
> installations) but the system itself has a very limited termcap database
> so I can't tell it that it's runing an rxvt terminal.
>
> I suspect this is more of an ncurses/telnet/termcap/terminfo question
> really - it's just that mutt is sitting on top.
depends on what sort of system - but I think it's more likely that it's
a terminfo system than termcap. For the terminfo, you can build a
small terminfo database by
setenv TERMINFO $HOME/terminfo
tic rxvt.ti
where rxvt.ti is the piece of text that describes rxvt. (But if the
system already has ncurses installed, it's not likely that it won't
have 'rxvt' or 'rxvt-color' defined in the terminfo database).
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