Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I have a box that runs OpenBSD that sshes into my Debian box. On > OpenBSD, the default colour term is vt220 so when I ssh to debian, TERM > is set to vt220.
vt220's don't do color. OpenBSD console is normally set to make $TERM to "vt200", which is twice a bug since it doesn't emulate vt220 either (except if one considers that a subset of a vt100 is again a subset of a vt220). > When I run mc, all is well; colour, line draw, whatever. That's a different bug ;-) > When I run lynx or mutt, I get black on white with no colour. On Lynx > this means that my blue on gray ends up as white on black; with mutt I > don't get the blue top and bottom lines or the red thread lines. That's normal... > If I ssh in from an xterm, with TERM=xterm, everything is fine. That's because Debian's "xterm" entry is set to correspond to xterm, which does color. > Does anyone have any clues on this? Conventional applications (excluding hardcoded stuff like GNU ls) uses terminfo/termcap data to determine what the terminal can do. You should report a bug in the applications that don't. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
