On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:11:41PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
>
> > joe@cuddy[503]: export TERM=xterm-color
> > joe@cuddy[504]: vi
> > xterm-color: Unknown terminal type
> > Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability
> > :q
> > joe@cuddy[505]: uname -a
> > SunOS cuddy 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
>
> That's not the issue.
It is if my sun inherits the TERM from my FreeBSD box. That said
it's the sun that's borked here, not us.
> What we want to do is have TERM=xterm be the same as xterm-color
> is now.
>
> If you log in to a FreeBSD box from your Sun, and *then* set
> TERM=xterm-color and run things on the FreeBSD box, do the color
> escape sequences screw anything up?
I've no idea, I've only got remote access to the sun, it's not mine,
and it's not forwarding X11 connections properly over ssh :*( sorry.
Joe
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