On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:39:03AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a box that runs OpenBSD that sshes into my Debian box. On > > OpenBSD, the default colour term is vt220 so when I ssh to debian, TERM > > is set to vt220. > > vt220's don't do color. > > OpenBSD console is normally set to make $TERM to "vt200", which is twice > a bug since it doesn't emulate vt220 either (except if one considers that > a subset of a vt100 is again a subset of a vt220). > > > When I run lynx or mutt, I get black on white with no colour. On Lynx > > this means that my blue on gray ends up as white on black; with mutt I > > don't get the blue top and bottom lines or the red thread lines. > > That's normal... > > > Does anyone have any clues on this? > > Conventional applications (excluding hardcoded stuff like GNU ls) > uses terminfo/termcap data to determine what the terminal can do. > You should report a bug in the applications that don't.
Thanks. I solved this problem by finding a TERM common to both that does colour. TERM=screen works just fine. Thanks. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
