Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:21:21 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: J McKitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org> Cc: James FitzGibbon <james@targetnet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: writing scripts Message-ID: <20000327142121.B99837@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20000327211804.A11608@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from "J McKitrick" on Mon Mar 27 21:18:04 GMT 2000 References: <20000327160911.C9691@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000327104539.A40393@targetnet.com> <20000327174023.C10268@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20000327145323.B40393@targetnet.com> <20000327211804.A11608@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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In the last episode (Mar 27), J McKitrick said: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 02:53:23PM -0500, James FitzGibbon wrote: > > * J McKitrick (jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org) [000327 11:40]: Actuially, is > > > there a way to tell whether the computer running telnet or ssh is > > > running windows or BSD? That's really an even better condition. > > > The BSD xterm and the tera-term terminal both have different > > > characteristics for showing color. > > > > Other than looking at the value of $TERM, which should be set > > differently for terminals of different capabilities, no. > > Well, for mutt to work, i have to change TERM to xterm-color in my > profile. I know that's a kludge, but it works. Unless i can find a > way to make the host box display colors on a vt100 terminal. > > Is there any other TERM setting besides 'xterm-color' that works in > color with mutt? Any TERM entry that sets the :Co: termcap parameter should work. vt100 terminals were all monochrome, so it doesn't make any sense to set TERM to vt100 and expect colors. Did teraterm come with a termcap entry? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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