You don't need xterm. You need the xterm entry in your terminfo database. North of 1985, any unix-like system that does not have terminfo (or does, but its lacking a setting for xterm) is unusable.
Perhaps you can research if terminfo is installed, find a valid terminfo string, and google around for how to tell git to use something other than xterm. On Feb 12, 8:05 pm, James Perkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, the main problem is it's not real AIX. It's an "AIX like" > environment called Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE). > From the native shell prompt, xterm is not even allowed. I've tried to > ssh in, but that didn't work. I did find somewhere that told me that > VNC should work, but I had no luck. I was able to get an xterm window > by typing xterm in VNC, but Git still complained. > > I guess the bottom line is that it's the environment I'm trying to get > it to work in not Git :-) It's just one of the joys of working on > platform that is completely different from all the others. I > appreciate the comments though. > > -- > James R. Perkins > > > > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:25, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > Your AIX terminal is broken if 'xterm' is not a valid terminfo string. > > Many command line tools will not work on your terminal. > > > It's possible your entire terminfo installation is broken, or it may > > just be that xterm is missing (which would be kinda weird, xterm is as > > old as the dinosaurs, it not being in a terminfo installation is > > something I have trouble imagining). I have no idea how AIX does > > package management, but if there is something, try asking it to > > install / update / fix 'terminfo' or possibly 'termcap' (the old > > name). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
