TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread Andrew J.F. Clark
Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). I can solve this by export TERM=xterm, but I'm just wondering if there is any particular

Re: TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread glhenni
Andrew J.F. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the | slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and | pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). | I can solve this by export

Re: TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 23 Dec, Andrew J.F. Clark wrote about TERM=xterm-debian Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). I can solve

Re: TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread aphro
thats just how it is ..it depends on what xterm you use, I use gnome-terminal(used to use kvt) and don't have a problem. This SGI Indy I'm on set's it's default terminal to iris-ansi. Slackware (3.2 anyways) had in the /etc/profile a detection routine for terminal type and if it failed detection

Re: TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-20 Thread Eric G . Miller
From the X-Strikeforce (debian port) page (http://www.debian.org/~branden/) heading xterm and the keyboard. xterm and the keyboard Debian has modified the key translations that xterm uses to make its behavior more consistent with the Linux virtual console. This has been achieved by setting

TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system doesn't know xterm-debian of course I don't think this was intended, so I guess I must be missing something. Or how do you guys deal with that? Thanks, Andy. --

Re: TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote about TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions Hi! Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system doesn't know xterm-debian of course I don't think this was intended, so I guess I

TERM=xterm-debian

1999-01-24 Thread Ralph Winslow
When I use vi as root, it works as expected, but when I use is as myself, rjw, I get: $ vi a_msg vi: xterm-debian: unknown terminal type $ It doesn't work with export TWRM=vt100 or export TERM=xterm either. Where have I gone wrong? -- - Ralph Winslow