Re: terminfo

[Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu>]

>>>>> "timothy" == timothy  <timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu> writes:

    > I am telnetting an AIX machine and trying to run pine and
    > it says "No terminfo entry for "XTERM-DEBIAN"." in xterm,
    > and similarly for when i'm in rxvt.  Before my terminfo was
    > just "xterm" i think, and it worked, how do i get it back
    > to this so I can check my mail when I telnet in? 

I know of two possibilities...

The simple fix (that gets tedious after a while) is to do an
"export TERM=xterm" on the AIX machine each time you login.

The nearly as simple fix (that is automatic once it is set up) is
to create a ~/.terminfo/x/ directory on your non-Debian account.
Copy /etc/terminfo/x/xterm-debian from your Debian machine to the
new .terminfo directory and, in your non-Debian machine shell
initialization scripts (i.e. .bashrc), add "export
TERMINFO=~/.terminfo".  That will do it.  I also tend to make a
copy of terminfo/r/rxvt for machines that don't have rxvt
entries.

Mike

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Michael A. Miller                                miller5@uiuc.edu
  Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign