[OT] Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread s. keeling
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[Solved, Thanks!] Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
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Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:33:44AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > Alternatively, you can set it in your shell's initialization files, > e.g. in ~/.profile?: > > if [ "$TERM" = "mlterm" ]; then TERM=xterm; fi > > You can do this on your local system or on each server you connect to. Thanks, Sven!

Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 09:01:44AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Because the server does not "know" your terminal (terminfo and/or > termcap). > > > Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work. > > Because terminal emulators are *mostly* compatible to xterm. Great, Now I understand! Thanks And

Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 07:08:48AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > And thus you can use: > > $HOME/.terminfo/m/mletrm > /etc/terminfo/m/mletrm > /lib/terminfo/m/mletrm Thanks, Tzafrir! -- Zhengquan Yow! Are you the self-frying president? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: question about term

2009-04-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:24:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > This problem has been puzzling me for quite a while. > > I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I > launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say > Error ope

Re: question about term

2009-04-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,20.Apr.09, 21:24:19, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > Dear debian community, > > This problem has been puzzling me for quite a while. > > I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I > launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say > Error opening terminal:

Re: question about term

2009-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-04-21 04:24 +0200, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: > I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I > launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say > Error opening terminal: mlterm. > > Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work. > > I was puzzled how the sy

question about term

2009-04-20 Thread Zhengquan Zhang
Dear debian community, This problem has been puzzling me for quite a while. I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say Error opening terminal: mlterm. Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work. I was puz