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Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / February 2005termcap $TERM type for OS X Terminal?
When I ssh into my web hosting service from the Terminal application in OS X, the window gets all screwed up in the elm email client. It looks just like things do when the $TERM environment variable is set wrong. echo $TERM both locally on my Mac and shelled into my hosting service yields "xterm-color". I don't have any trouble on the Mac, so I think the variable is set correctly, but the /etc/termcap entry on my host doesn't match Terminal's expectations. The host is a Linux box, I think it is Slackware, and probably a recent release but I don't know which one. I once saw someone who had a private termcap just for himself, I think it might have been in a $TERMCAP environment variable. If that would work maybe someone could give me a clue how. I don't find a /etc/termcap file on my Mac, maybe it uses terminfo, which I think uses a different format. If all else fails, I could probably get my hosting service to add a new entry for Macs to their termcap. It's Seagull Networks (http://www.seagull.net/), run by Paul Celestin, who many of you likely remember from his Apprentice Mac freeware CDs. Paul is a good guy. I've had all my domains hosted with him since '97. TIA, Michael D. Crawford crawford@goingware.com Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ > When I ssh into my web hosting service from the Terminal application in OS X, > the window gets all screwed up in the elm email client. It looks just like > things do when the $TERM environment variable is set wrong. I have been using good old "vt100" without a problem logging into a Sun Sparc box. There are variations of vt100 that add more features. You can go surfing through the termcap or terminfo database on the destination machine. Another one to try is trusty old "ansi". -john-  Signature====================================================================== John A. Weeks III 952-432-2708 john@johnweeks.com Newave Communications http://www.johnweeks.com ====================================================================== Hi, > I have been using good old "vt100" without a problem logging into > a Sun Sparc box. There are variations of vt100 that add more [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > -john- I tried both vt100 and ansi with the same results. I'm not completely sure if the problem is the termcap. What happens to me is that in elm, only some of the message subjects are displayed, and more appear as I scroll up and down. Possibly it is some kind of networking problem. But, perhaps you could post the vt100 termcap from your Sparc box? That is, if it uses /etc/termcap. However, it does look like that on OSX there is a tool to convert between terminfo entries and termcap ones. Maybe if you can give me a better config, I can figure out how to use it privately, without having to get Paul to add it to the /etc/termcap file. Michael D. Crawford crawford@goingware.com Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ |
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