Re: $TERM = "xterm" acting funny on non-linux terms

1997-12-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Galen" == Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Galen> Such a bug has already been submitted. See the log for Galen> #14366. Hm, that's good. Galen> This is not as clear-cut a case as you might think. The Galen> problem with the xterm is not that it is linux-specif

Re: $TERM = "xterm" acting funny on non-linux terms

1997-12-03 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote: > This is not as clear-cut a case as you might think. The problem with > the xterm is not that it is linux-specific, it's that it's too new for > many old X windows systems out there. I feel that asking people with Yes. And many people who administrate

Re: $TERM = "xterm" acting funny on non-linux terms

1997-12-03 Thread Galen Hazelwood
Ben Gertzfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I noticed this too. Setting my term to xterm-r6 solved the problem. > > I think you or I should submit a bug report on the ncurses-term > package -- its xterm terminfo entry is Linux-specific. The xterm-r6 > entry is correct, and works for both Linux and

Re: $TERM = "xterm" acting funny on non-linux terms

1997-12-02 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Will" == Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Will> I recently synced up my Debian machine with the unstable Will> tree on ftp.debian.org. Now if I connect to my linux box Will> inside a non-linux xterm (non xterm-color, from a Sun Will> machine, for example), all the text