On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 05:43:54AM -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: > >On Oct 28, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Jeff Grossman wrote: > > > >>I do all of my administration on my Debian system using either Telnet > >>or SSH from a remote computer. But, when I run programs like aptitude > >>or mc it does not show any lines just funky characters for the lines. > >>I did a screen shot and put it up on my webpage if anybody would like > >>to take a look and tell me what I have configured wrong. > >> > >>http://www.stikman.com/mcdisplay.jpg > > > > > >That looks similar to some things I saw when SSH'ing from a Mac OSX > >machine to a Debian system and running Aptitude. > > > >Switching the Mac's Terminal application over to using "xterm-color" > >for the terminal type, straightened it right up. > > > >Even if you're not on a Mac, it's a problem with the terminal > >emulation of the machine you're on, and what the terminal emulation is > >set up as on the Debian machine in $TERM in the shell. > > > >You can probably find a combination that works properly though, if you > >hunt a bit. Don't forget to "reset" in the shell each time you change > >your terminal emulation on your machine you're testing from, if you're > >not disconnecting and reconnecting. > > > What I am confused about is I am running the exact same terminal in both > Debian and the client as I did in Gentoo and I had the lines drawn in > mc. I am using the linux terminal. When I run 'echo $TERM' it says > linux and my client says linux which I have not changed from when I > connected to Gentoo. > > I just connected to a Gentoo box to make sure I am correct, and yes, I > echo the term and it says linux and the lines are drawn in mc. I just > don't know where my configuration is different.
I run into this going from one of the BSDs, even if they have a TERM=linux, it doesn't work. I have found that TERM=screen works just fine, as long as locale=C (don't know about matching other locales). TERM=screen works since all the OSs I use have GNU screen as a package and will need it to work. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
