On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:31 AM, James PIC<james...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Ray Kohler<ataraxia...@gmail.com> wrote: >> - Will it implement enough of xterm's capabilities that I could lie >> about $TERM and expect it to mostly work? I log into many remote >> machines of various OS types and ages, and some of them don't make it >> easy to install user-specific terminfo entries. > > Do you mean that ~/.terminfo doesn't work on that machines?
I mean that I can't get sufficient access to write files in there. I have "captive" access only, where my shell is replaced by a restricted menu-driven app which doesn't allow me to write files into arbitrary locations, not even under my home directory. (I also wouldn't be able to set $TERMINFO anyway.) There are also some rather broken machines that don't appear to have tic installed.
