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Notes from the leading edge

Notes from the leading edge

Posted Nov 22, 2006 12:20 UTC (Wed) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
In reply to: Notes from the leading edge by kzin
Parent article: Notes from the leading edge

Those of us who have to login from a terminal to an other system that has no idea what to do when the TERM is set to "screen".

Bye,NAR

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Notes from the leading edge

Posted Nov 22, 2006 12:47 UTC (Wed) by kzin (guest, #841) [Link]

I think "TERM=screen" is standard Linux termcap, and (nearly) all distros have it. Of course, you can always "TERM=linux" or "TERM=xterm" if you need to to log into AIX or whatever. They're compatible.

Notes from the leading edge

Posted Nov 23, 2006 6:05 UTC (Thu) by mokki (subscriber, #33200) [Link]

A good practice is to copy the linux terminfo database to any solaris / hp-ux / aix system you log into and just set the TERMINFO environmental variable to point to it. That way you can use TERM=rxvt, TERM=screen and not have broken functionality.

I actually have created a reduced set of terminfo files in a ready tar.gz package that I just extract into my home directory in oldie unix systems.


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