Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-25 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > $ unset termcap > > > > Sorry to say but that doesn't do it either. Any other ideas? NB: It > > goes fine from a virtual console and an rxvt, just not an xterm. I'm > > guessing that it's the colors that an xterm is not capable of that is > > the pro

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-25 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Toens Bueker wrote: > On May 23, Richard L Shepherd wrote > > > > $ unset termcap > > > > Sorry to say but that doesn't do it either. Any other ideas? > > NB: It goes fine from a virtual console and an rxvt, just not an xterm. > > I'm guessing that it's the colors that an x

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 23 May 1997, Richard L Shepherd wrote: > On Wed, 21 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > > > "Richard" == Richard L Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Richard> Does anyone know how to fix the problem of trying to > > Richard> use a program (such as lynx or slrn) th

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-22 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > "Richard" == Richard L Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Richard> Does anyone know how to fix the problem of trying to use > Richard> a program (such as lynx or slrn) that uses SLang from > Richard> reporting the error: Termi

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-22 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Richard" == Richard L Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Richard> Does anyone know how to fix the problem of trying to use Richard> a program (such as lynx or slrn) that uses SLang from Richard> reporting the error: Terminal not powerful enough for Richard> SLang and faili

Terminal not powerful enough for SLang

1997-05-22 Thread Richard L Shepherd
Does anyone know how to fix the problem of trying to use a program (such as lynx or slrn) that uses SLang from reporting the error: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang and failing there? I just did an update through dselect (using stable) and got a new version of lynx which told me to

Re: Half solved [Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.]

1997-03-18 Thread Holger Rusch
Hi, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now it is possible to start programms that uses SLang in an xterm, but >> they are still black an white. JH> What you want is to set COLORTERM. Slang uses this to detect if JH> terminal supports color, instead of trying to use termcap, becuase JH> the a

Re: Half solved [Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.]

1997-03-17 Thread Joey Hess
Holger Rusch: > Now it is possible to start programms that uses SLang in an xterm, but > they are still black an white. What you want is to set COLORTERM. Slang uses this to detect if the terminal supports color, instead of trying to use termcap, becuase the author thinks that termcap/info are too

Re: Half solved [Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.]

1997-03-17 Thread Carl Johnson
Holger Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now it is possible to start programms that uses SLang in an xterm, but > they are still black an white. > > It is in color when I 'export TERM=xterm-color', but I don't like > that. Its ugly (not the color, but the TERM setting). If you have the color w

Re: Half solved [Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.]

1997-03-17 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
I just tested my xterm and didn't get color either. However rxvt works justs fine with colors. Why not change to rxvt? This might not be exactly what you are looking for but it works :) // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere

Half solved [Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.]

1997-03-17 Thread Holger Rusch
Carl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: CJ> Holger Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> i got a problem with SLang in xterm. >> [...] CJ> I used to have a similar problem. I discovered that something was CJ> setting some totally useless information in the TERMCAP environment CJ> variable. I

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.

1997-03-16 Thread jghasler
> I discovered that something was setting some totally useless information > in the TERMCAP environment variable. I had the same problem, but didn't know it came from TERMCAP. I see it in X, not in vc's. I just checked: TERMCAP is set to co#92:li#47: in xterms, but undefined in a vc. My xterms

Re: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.

1997-03-16 Thread Carl Johnson
Holger Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i got a problem with SLang in xterm. ... > And when I then try to start jed in an xterm it results in the > following error message: > > Terminal not powerful enough for SLang. > > And the programm terminates. This happens

Terminal not powerful enough for SLang.

1997-03-16 Thread Holger Rusch
x27;s editor ii jedsl 0.98b-1jed's slang files And when I then try to start jed in an xterm it results in the following error message: Terminal not powerful enough for SLang. And the programm terminates. This happens for all programms which use SLang if I try to start them i