From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 17:57:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aauu.aaweber.com (cs9340-48.austin.rr.com [24.93.40.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FF614F5B for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:57:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aaweber@austin.rr.com) Received: (from aaweber@localhost) by aauu.aaweber.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA01783; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 19:57:27 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 19:57:27 -0600 From: Alan Weber To: Mike Jakubik Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Error opening terminal: cons25 (linux emu.) Message-ID: <19990313195726.A1639@austin.rr.com> References: <36EADE59.E9E9432F@sprint.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36EADE59.E9E9432F@sprint.ca>; from Mike Jakubik on Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 04:53:30PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 04:53:30PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: --> Hello, does anyone else get this problem on any linux emulated programs? --> I get this on 2 program that i need to use, none of them have the source --> code available. 1 is a linux emulated program other is native freebsd --> code, and both give me the error Error opening terminal: cons25 (or any --> other term i set to) Someone told me ncurses is needed, so i installed --> it via the ports , and i still get the same error. Could anyone PLEASE --> help me out? I really need these programs working. --> --> Thank you. This is a problem with the TERM environment variable. Try TERM=ansi or TERM=vt100. -- When I was a kid I had to rub sticks together to multiply and divide numbers. A calculator was a job description. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message