Re: How to properly set TERM variable
On 26 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu> writes:
>
> > I like to set TERM=xterm-color, and don't have a lot of patience with
> > programs that can't deal with this. When telneting, it is good to put
> > TERM=vt100 or some such thing in your .bashrc or it's equivelent on the
> > remote system.
>
> Note that, as things stand now, in hamm there is no xterm-color.
> /etc/terminfo/x/xterm includes the color definition, and there is a
> /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-old.[1] (There are also color_xterm,
> xterm-16color, and xterm-pcolor, but no xterm-color.)
> For some details see:
Oops. I still have xterm-color, but I always suspected that my 1.2->1.3
upgrade hadn't gone quite right.
>
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14366.html
>
>
> Kirk Hilliard
>
>
> [1] I hate dselect[2] in a color xterm since the whitespace
> surrounding the descriptive text of the information section
> is not colored, so big blocks of reverse video text jump around
> as I scroll through packages. Hence, I always run:
>
> # TERM=xterm-old dselect
>
>
> [2] I have noticed that, in hamm, dselect no longer seems to handle
> xterm resizing. Also, stray characters sometime appear after
> rapidly scrolling through packages. Has anyone else noticed
> this, and is it a bug in dselect, or in ncurses, or what?
>
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