From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 17:17:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genesis.tao.org.uk [194.242.131.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9699837BC7D; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 5C1229B05; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:17:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:17:26 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Matthew Hunt Cc: Ben Smithurst , Kris Kennaway , Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000719011726.K20505@pavilion.net> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Matthew Hunt , Ben Smithurst , Kris Kennaway , Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu> <20000719005555.W4668@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20000718170420.A97601@wopr.caltech.edu> <20000719010841.I20505@pavilion.net> <20000718171141.A97774@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000718171141.A97774@wopr.caltech.edu>; from mph@astro.caltech.edu on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:11:41PM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:11:41PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > joe@cuddy[503]: export TERM=xterm-color > > joe@cuddy[504]: vi > > xterm-color: Unknown terminal type > > Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability > > :q > > joe@cuddy[505]: uname -a > > SunOS cuddy 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1 > > That's not the issue. It is if my sun inherits the TERM from my FreeBSD box. That said it's the sun that's borked here, not us. > What we want to do is have TERM=xterm be the same as xterm-color > is now. > > If you log in to a FreeBSD box from your Sun, and *then* set > TERM=xterm-color and run things on the FreeBSD box, do the color > escape sequences screw anything up? I've no idea, I've only got remote access to the sun, it's not mine, and it's not forwarding X11 connections properly over ssh :*( sorry. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message