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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2000 01:17:26 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Color ls
Message-ID:  <20000719011726.K20505@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000718171141.A97774@wopr.caltech.edu>; from mph@astro.caltech.edu on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:11:41PM -0700
References:  <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181416130.20886-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <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>

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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


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