Re: xterm terminfo entry

[Raja R Harinath]

Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> in practice, the "linux" entry not being supported by solaris (for
> example) was handled by people doing "set term=vt100" and whining a
> lot... 

A solution is to tell them to:

  linux$ infocmp xterm-color > missing-term.tic

(replace `xterm-color' with your favourite terminal name found on linux,
but not on Solaris)

Get `missing-terms.tic' somehow to the Solaris machine,

  solaris$ TERMINFO=$HOME/.missing-terms
  solaris$ export TERMINFO
  solaris$ mkdir $TERMINFO
  solaris$ tic missing-term.tic

and put this in some init file:

  TERMINFO=$HOME/.missing-terms
  export TERMINFO

- Hari
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Re: xterm terminfo entry

[Mark Eichin]

in practice, the "linux" entry not being supported by solaris (for
example) was handled by people doing "set term=vt100" and whining a
lot... 


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Re: xterm terminfo entry

[Raul Miller]

On Jun 22, Mark Eichin wrote
> Except that the xterm-color entry isn't particularly widespread, yet;
> so if you rlogin or telnet somewhere that doesn't have it, you pretty
> much lose.

termcap supported  the TERMCAP environmental variable, which solved
problems like this (and like "linux" not being supported on Solaris).
ncurses, near as I can tell, doesn't support anything like this.

Maybe we could put together a portable (tar + sh based) solution that
supports both termcap and ncurses on arbitrary unix systems?

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Re: xterm terminfo entry

[Mark Eichin]

Except that the xterm-color entry isn't particularly widespread, yet;
so if you rlogin or telnet somewhere that doesn't have it, you pretty
much lose.  This is the main reason I'm reluctant to force the
change... though I might be convinced to do it for the unstable (with
libc6 and all the other experimental funstuff) X release if it's
likely to be more widespread in the future...


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xterm terminfo entry

[Erv Walter]

I have a question about the terminfo entry for 'xterm'  I am wondering
how I need to adjust it so that it says color is supported.  xterm now
supports color (demonstrated by ls --color and tin in color), but the
terminfo entry still says black and white so programs like lynx and
slrn are blackand white.

Maybe this should be fixed next time terminfo files are released.  In
the mean time, what entries do i need to change?

Thanks,
Erv

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