Re: question about term

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:24:19PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote:
> Dear debian community,
> 
> This problem has been puzzling me for quite a while.
> 
> I use mlterm(a unicode terminal) to connect to servers. but when I
> launch mutt or top or something alike in it. It will fail and say
> Error opening terminal: mlterm.
> 
> Then if I do 'TERM=xterm' and it would work.

You're missing the definition of a terminal called "mlterm". 

You can get it from /usr/share/terminfo/m/mlterm in your original
system. Copy it to m/mlterm somewhere where terminfo will look for it

On my system:

$ strace -estat env TERM=blabla less
stat("/home/tzafrir/.terminfo", 0x7ffff85660d0) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
stat("/etc/terminfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/lib/terminfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/usr/share/terminfo", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) =
0
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
Missing filename ("less --help" for help)

And thus you can use:

  $HOME/.terminfo/m/mletrm
  /etc/terminfo/m/mletrm
  /lib/terminfo/m/mletrm
  /usr/share/terminfo/m/mletrm

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