Re: [TCLUG:14895] TERM problems e

[Ben Luey <lueyb@gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu>]

Thanks, -- I just found out that my mandrake upgrade got sorta messed up
and a lot of my installed rpms weren't really installed.  I did a verify
and learned that among other things, my ncurses wasn't installed right.
That fixed it.

Ben
 On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Chris McKinley wrote:

> IMO, you should set your TERM environment variable to vt100 in most cases
> such as this.  The rxvt, xterm, and linux terminal types are not portable.  
> Sun's sun-cmd is not, either, and can cause a lot of misaligned text in, 
> for example, vi.
> 
> -Chris McKinley
> 
> On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Ben Luey wrote:
> 
> > I just upgraded from mandrake 6.0 to 7.0 an now when I run, say jed, por
> > pine or other text programs, I get:
> > 
> > [lueyb@localhost doc]$ jed UPGRADE 
> > Unknown terminal: rxvt
> > Check the TERM environment variable.
> > Also make sure that the terminal is defined in the terminfo database.
> > Alternatively, set the TERMCAP environment variable to the desired
> > termcap entry.
> > [lueyb@localhost doc]$ echo $TERM
> > rxvt
> > 
> > I get this in X  ($TERm=rxvt) and when not in X ($TERM=linux)
> > 
> > I never had this problem before. less and more give me warnings about my
> > term settings. If I force TERM to equal xterm or something, it usually
> > works, but sometimes with problems. How can I fix this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
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