On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:12:52PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote: > I see you are using a mac and telneting into a linux machine? > Your telnet has vt220 emulation? > You are setting the environmental on the remote?
right. macs, being single-user*, have no 'environment' to set. none to speak of, anyhow. (and certainly no command-line to set it with!) *until osX which is supposedly unix-derived...? > Well, a vt220 is _not_ a color terminal even though emulations might > support color, That is: the vt220 terminfo does not describe a color term. > You either have to force color although this might be the default > - this capability has to do with the the way the program > (mutt, mc, ls, lynx etc.) was written and the curses library used to > compile. If the terminal types are limited on your mac telnet program > and you have to use a vt220 you could possibly add color to the terminfo > description if the linux programs on the remote do not force color. ah. i woulda swore vt220 was color. my bad! so then i'm trying to have mutt misbehave in the same way 'mc -c' and 'elvis' and 'ls' do. :) thanks for the info. i have a few ideas to try now. > Also, when you post, you should start out explaining the problem > rather than having it extracted gradually by a guessing game. > If I did not guess right please let me know :) and I'll make > another guess. i was just following the linux documentation model: "all the info is right there (if you know where to look, and have the temerity/nads to do so)..." :) thanks for your help!
