Re: how get colour mutt when ssh from OBSD?

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:39:03AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> 
> > I have a box that runs OpenBSD that sshes into my Debian box.  On
> > OpenBSD, the default colour term is vt220 so when I ssh to debian, TERM
> > is set to vt220.  
> 
> vt220's don't do color.
> 
> OpenBSD console is normally set to make $TERM to "vt200", which is twice
> a bug since it doesn't emulate vt220 either (except if one considers that
> a subset of a vt100 is again a subset of a vt220).
> 
 
> > When I run lynx or mutt, I get black on white with no colour.  On Lynx
> > this means that my blue on gray ends up as white on black; with mutt I
> > don't get the blue top and bottom lines or the red thread lines.
> 
> That's normal...
> 
 
> > Does anyone have any clues on this?
> 
> Conventional applications (excluding hardcoded stuff like GNU ls)
> uses terminfo/termcap data to determine what the terminal can do.
> You should report a bug in the applications that don't.

Thanks.

I solved this problem by finding a TERM common to both that does colour.
TERM=screen works just fine.

Thanks.

Doug.