Re: xterm woes

[Paul@Mills-USA.com]

These definitions are in /usr/lib/xterm/x/.

I have copied these from my debian box to a subdirectory of my 
home directory on a Solaris system and then defined the TERMINFO
envirnment variable to point to that directory. I do not know
if this will work on an Irix system.

See man ncurses for details.


On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Carlo U. Segre wrote:

> Hello All:
> 
> I have been running the hamm distribution on one machine and Debian 1.3 on
> another.  When I telnet over from the hamm to the 1.3 from a xterm window
> and I try to run pine on the 1.3 machine, I get the message:
> 
> Terminal type "xterm-debian", is unknown.
> 
> And I am unable to run pine.  This same message shows up when I log into
> an Irix system and a Solaris system but in the Irix case, pine will
> continue to work and in the Solaris case, I am able to use the set term
> command to fix the problem.
> 
> Is this a bug in the xterm setup?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Carlo
> 
> 
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