Ted Hajek writes:
>On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>> I'm currently running kernel version 1.2.13 Rev 2. When I try to
>> run pine on the PPP connection I get the error: Terminal type
>> "linux", is unknown. This sounds somewhat familiar. (Just recently
>> in this mail list) Any ideas? Pine will not run, naturaly.
>
>When this sort of thing happens, I usually do:
> setenv TERM vt100
>or
> export TERM=vt100
>depending on whether I'm using tcsh or bash as my shell.
>
>This seems to do the trick.
>
>I'm sure that there's a better way to do this -- I assume that
>applications should recognize the "linux" terminal type. I'll look
>into this the next time I update the pine package.
I think what's going on here is that Dale is running Pine on a machine
the other side of the PPP connection?
The most general solution is to get Sun, SCO, Novell, ... to add
`linux' to their termcap/terminfo. I guess this isn't going to happen
immediately.
One could have something the following as a telnet wrapper...
#!/bin/sh
if test "$TERM" = linux -o "$TERM" = console
then
export TERM=vt100
fi
exec telnet "$@"
Fixing term{info,cap} is a much more sensible solution.
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