From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 20:59:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diarmadhi.mushhaven.net (diarmadhi.mushhaven.net [63.75.111.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A834337B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:59:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mistwolf@localhost) by diarmadhi.mushhaven.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA29439; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mistwolf) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:57:33 -0700 From: Jamie Norwood To: Dan Nelson Cc: Otter , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Raising PTYs Message-ID: <20001002205732.A29413@mushhaven.net> References: <20001001210159.A17043@dan.emsphone.com> <20001002174100.A6585@mushhaven.net> <20001002224551.B23329@dan.emsphone.com> <20001002204859.A29344@mushhaven.net> <20001002225555.C23329@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20001002225555.C23329@dan.emsphone.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:55:55PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Oct 02), Jamie Norwood said: > > I installed the latest ncurses (5.1) and the problem went away... So, > > for now, this is my recommendation. I have SecureCRT set to VT100 and > > my TERM variabl to vt100. Note screen 3.9.8 hard-sets it's termcap in > > your environment. > > Right; screen has always done this, since the terminal it presents to > subshells (true ANSI X3.64 with colors) is different from the terminal > you used to run it. I used to use screen on old z19 terminals so I > could run programs that hardcoded ANSI escape sequences in them. > What's important is that the TERM you have before you run screen > matches your terminal/emulator as closely as possible. So... Why did installing ncurses fix it? I don't entirely understand how this is working, or what can be done to fix it other than to use ncurses. I never had this problem with screen 9.5.x, and wouldn't have upgraded if I didn't need to recompile for more pty's. Jamie > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message