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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