Re: TERM defaults to linux even on serial console (where vt102 would be more appropriate)
On Mon Feb 14, 2000 at 09:48:24PM +0100, Eric Delaunay wrote:
>
> Hello Erik,
>
> could you add some glue to busybox' init to set up TERM to vt102 instead of
> linux when booting on serial console?
> Dialog boxes could be better drawn with such term settings (using - and |
> characters).
> I know I can pass TERM=vt102 at boot time in kernel command line but it would
> be nice if it could be automagically assigned by init itself. Sparc bootdisks
> worked like that in slink, at least.
I agree that "ANSI" (the current setting) is not best cross-platform setting,
but it seems like if we going to change it, then we should either change it to
set TERM=vt100 (which seems to be the least of all possable least common
denominators and is what the old busybox used to use), or set it to TERM=linux.
Architectures that want something other than vt100 can hard code the desired
TERM setting into the kernel command line...
Thoughts? Sound agreeable?
-Erik
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