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Re: AOUT packages




On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, David Engel wrote:

> > > > 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.
> > Also is CD Rasmussen stil on the board?
> 
> -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.

I got this message as well, and did what he suggested:
      TERM=console
after which setterm did set the colors ok. 

Trouble is, some applications, I think including Emacs, complained
that this was not a familiar TERM.   

I reset it, and lost colors.  Emacs (or whatever) then ran ok.

Alan Davis
"Look after truth and goodness.  Beauty looks after herself."
          ---Eric Gill  (on typoraphy  and book design.)


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