Re: xterm terminfo entry

1997-06-23 Thread 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

Re: xterm terminfo entry

1997-06-23 Thread 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... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: xterm terminfo entry

1997-06-23 Thread 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 bei

Re: xterm terminfo entry

1997-06-23 Thread 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 ex

xterm terminfo entry

1997-06-21 Thread 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 w