Re: Colors mess up terminal

[Marc Fortier <mfortier at site dot uottawa dot ca>]

On 23 Aug 2001, Andrew Markebo wrote:

> Sounds like the termcap info for cygwin terminal isn't really uptodate
> on your linux-machine. (Assuming that you are running ssh from the
> cygwin bash)
>
That's right, I'm running ssh from cygwin bash.

> How is it, is it the environment variable TERMCAP that can contain the
> terminfo? Get the string from /etc/termcap of your cygwin
> installation, and set it on the linux-machine..
>
/etc/termcap on cygwin says

cygwin:\
        :xn@:op=\E[39;49m:Km=\E[M:tc=linux:

And /etc/termcap on the linux box doesn't have a reference to cygwin.
I tried copting this to the linux box, but it didn't fix the problem.

> Hmm what happens if you set the variable TERM to linux in the linux
> shell before firing up pine?
>
I tried setting TERM to linux, and linux-m for monochrome, but that
doesn't solve the problem either.

		Marc

>         /Andy
>
> |    I'm running W2K with all the latest cygwin stuff, including
> | openssh2.9p2.  I ssh from cygwin to a linux box.  echo $TERM replies
> | cygwin.  If I run pine without specifying to turn off colours, extra line
> | feeds are added at the bottom of the screen, whether I'm in the menu,
> | message index, or reading messages.  In the index, this means I have to
> | guess what message the cursor is over before I can open it.  Also, some
> | lines don't get updated properly a the top and bottom of the screen.
> |
> |    If I run pine with -color-style=no-colors, all is well.  But it would
> | be nice not to have to turn off colours.
> |
> | 		Marc
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