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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:34:19 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com>
Cc: Matthew Hagerty <matthew@wolfepub.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: NCurses and cons25
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On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 09:56:24PM -0500, Norman C Rice wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 1998 at 01:12:01PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 09:29:01PM -0500, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
>>>    I have had very little luck finding much information on using or
>>> configuring curses or ncurses.  Also, I can't seem to find any information
>>> on how to set a terminal type.
>>
>> Depending on your shell, do:
>>
>> (Bourne shell and friends)
>>
>>   $ TERM=cons25; export TERM
>>
>> (C shell and friends, I think)
>>
>>   % setenv TERM=cons25
>                  ^
> I believe that should be
>
>    % setenv TERM cons25

Thanks.  Guess who doesn't use the C shell.

Greg