ncurses or xterm problems in potato
Is anyone else having xterm problems when logging in to a potato
system from another system? I'm actually not sure where the problem
lies, xterm, ncurses or somewhere else, but whenever I log in to my
Debian laptop from my workstation (SGI using ssh in an xterm) the
terminal properties seem to be messed up. For example if I do a "man
ls" the man pages shows up, but it's got underlines in bad places and
tends to reverse-video things that shouldn't be rv'd. When I'm done
reading the manual page the terminal is stuck in reverse-video
mode. Until I type "reset".
Also, if I edit a file with vi, where my cursor is on screen does not
correspond to where it actually is in the file and Ctrl+L doesn't set
it straight either.
>From past experience these symptoms, to me, would indicate a bad
termcap entry (or terminfo in the case of Debian), but I'm not too
familiar with this type of thing.
It's always been a potato system, but this problem just started
happening after I did an "apt-get upgrade" a few hours ago.
Thanks,
Gary
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