Re: AOUT packages
> > > > setterm-1.0-0.deb Maintainer: CD Rasmussen <cdr@star.net>
> > > When I tried converting this one, some things didn't work. I think
> > > this may be one of those apps where ncurses termcap emulation doesn't
> > > work.
> >
> > Do you know what failed to work? I did recompile it, but did not try it yet.
>
> -foreground as well as several other options. Ray Dassen sent me some
> email saying setterm expected the TERM to be "con*" and would not do
> some things if it was "linux". I haven't checked into it yet.
setterm does the following (near the end of setterm.c):
vcterm = !strncmp(term, "con", 3);
which is used for the old style TERM values (con80x25 etc.); in early
1.3 the default TERM changed to "linux", so this should probably be:
vcterm = !strcmp(term, "linux");
Ray
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