[25469] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.2.15: /etc/termcap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Jan 28 01:28:24 2004
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
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The termcap database on Solaris appears to lack an entry for
"xterm-color". To my knowledge, this has always been the case,
however apart from the fact that it caused platform skew, this has
never been much of a problem.
However, MacOS X 10.3 appears to set $TERM to "xterm-color" by
default in the Terminal application (10.2 set it to "vt100"). When
people ssh in to the dialups from MacOS X 10.3, they get a terminal
type of "xterm-color" in the resulting tty window, which causes most
curses apps (and any other app that cares about the terminal type) to
be very sad. Users have already started to notice this and contact
OLC when they notice that they can't run lynx, emacs, etc.
While a possible workaround is to set $TERM to something else
intelligent, such as "xterm" or "vt100", it would be nice if
xterm-color existed as a valid terminal type on Solaris, as it does
on Linux.
-Jon
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