Re: TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread aphro
thats just how it is ..it depends on what "xterm" you use, I use gnome-terminal(used to use kvt) and don't have a problem. This SGI Indy I'm on set's it's default terminal to iris-ansi. Slackware (3.2 anyways) had in the /etc/profile a detection routine for terminal type and if it failed detectio

Re: TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Andrew J.F. Clark wrote about "TERM=xterm-debian" > Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the > slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and > pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rx

Re: TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread glhenni
"Andrew J.F. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the | slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and | pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). | I can solve this by export TERM=x

TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread Andrew J.F. Clark
Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). I can solve this by export TERM=xterm, but I'm just wondering if there is any particular

Re: TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
From the X-Strikeforce (debian port) page (http://www.debian.org/~branden/) heading xterm and the keyboard. xterm and the keyboard Debian has modified the key translations that xterm uses to make its behavior more consistent with the Linux virtual console. This has been achieved by setting th

Re: TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote about "TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions" > Hi! > > Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the > TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system > doesn't know "xterm-debian" of course &g

TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system doesn't know "xterm-debian" of course I don't think this was intended, so I guess I must be missing something. Or how do you guys deal with that? Thanks, Andy. -- E-Ma

TERM=xterm-debian

1999-01-24 Thread Ralph Winslow
When I use vi as root, it works as expected, but when I use is as myself, rjw, I get: $ vi a_msg vi: xterm-debian: unknown terminal type $ It doesn't work with "export TWRM=vt100" or "export TERM=xterm" either. Where have I gone wrong? -- - Ralph Winslow