Re: RH8, ncurses on the console (solved, sort of)

[Scott Burns]

Hi,
    I managed to fix my problem by issueing a 'reset' command which supposedly resets the command strings and sets the terminal into cooked mode.  This does not fix everything - man pages are pretty bad now with lots of spurious characters and screen still doesn't work - but it's enough for me not to lose any sleep over it.

Scott



Scott Burns wrote:

Blaine Armsterd wrote:

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Scott Burns wrote:
  

    I'm having a little trouble running some ncurses applications on the
console.  Rather than getting a nice little boxy picture of a truck and
some traffic lights showing me what my weighbridge is doing, I get junk
all over the place, albeit colourful junk.  I tried changing my TERM to
vt100 (black and white, no lines), ansi(okay, but no lines) and
xterm(okay, but no lines).  The no lines I believe is caused by not
having an alternate character set.  By 'junk' I mean random boxes of
colour in no particular position, but they are in repeatable positions.
    

Try setting your LANG environment variable from utf-8 to something like
null.

  

Hi,
    I gave this a try, but no dice.  I also checked for LC_ variables the bash man page said are related, but the closest I had was PLC_UTIL and PLC_LINE, neither of which match those in the man page.  I tried setting LANG to null, "", unsetting it and setting it to garbage.  Any other ideas?

Thanks