No ncurses color in hamm xterms

[servis@purdue.edu]

On my hamm system I have recenly lost color on ncurses applications
running in xterms.  This recenly started happening but I can't recall
which packages changed to create the problem.  Has anybody else seen
this happening?  Things like dselect, mc, the kernel make menuconfig
all work but are only shown using ascii lines with no colors.  The
term variable in the shells is set to xterm. Below are listed versions
,from dpkg -l, of the packages installed that might play a role in this
situation.

ii  xbase           3.3.2.2-1      local clients and configuration required by
ii  ncurses-base    1.9.9g-8.6     Video terminal manipulation - Minimum termin
ii  ncurses-bin     1.9.9g-8.6     Video terminal manipulation - associated pro
ii  ncurses-term    1.9.9g-8.6     Video terminal manipulation - additional ter
ii  ncurses3.4      1.9.9g-8.6     Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
ii  ncurses3.4-dev  1.9.9g-8.6     Video terminal manipulation - Developer's li

Thanks for any input,

Brian 
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Mechanical Engineering                              servis@purdue.edu
Purdue University                   http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis


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