Re: terminal settings from linux->Solaris
On Thu, May 14, 1998 at 09:45:19PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> On Fri, 15 May 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
> > I use ssh and rsh a lot from my hamm boxes to Sparc hosts running solaris.
> > If I ssh from my linux console into a solaris host, the display settings
> > are all fuggly, and things like "less" don't work right. Any idea which
> > of the solaris termcap entries are appropriate for a linux console?
>
> Take the linux terminfo file and copy it up to the Solaris box. Put it in
> /usr/share/terminfo/l/linux and all should work OK.
I always assumed they would be architecture/OS-specific in format, so I use
infocmp to export it and tic at the other end to integrate it. This works
for linux, rxvt etc quite nicely. As a non-root user I set my TERMINFO
env. variable to $HOME/.terminfo first.
hamish
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