[4532] in testers
sgi/linux xterm incompatibility?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Mon Jul 3 17:16:32 2000
Message-Id: <200007032116.RAA613921@aupair.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 17:16:25 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
When I ssh from an sgi to a linux machine, both running 8.4, there is
a terminal setting problem, such that line editing is basically
broken. (Using CTRL-P to recall commands does not properly rewrite
the line; CTRL-A does not move the cursor to the beginning of line).
man output also has a problem -- reverse-video and underline modes
are not getting turned off correctly.
The problem seems to be an incompatibility in the xterm terminfo
capabilities between the two systems. I built the IRIX xterm
terminfo file on Linux, and installed it under $HOME/.terminfo,
and the problems seemed to go away.
Bob
