The documentation as well as my experiments seems to show that the TERM
variable is used.
Liza
Justin Zygmont
<jzygmont@solarflow. To: Liza Alenchery <lalenchery@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
dyndns.org> cc: "Guy M. Streeter" <streeter@xxxxxxxxxx>, <anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TERM=ansi display problems for ncurses program.
06/19/2002 02:08 PM
one thing that comes to mind with these terminal emulation things is the
TERM variable, do you know if your client application is using this
variable if it exists?
On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Liza Alenchery wrote:
>
> It is *not* set, so I suppose that is not the problem. Also, anaconda
> screens work fine with the same kernel.
>
> Liza
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> "Guy M. Streeter"
> <streeter@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Liza
Alenchery <lalenchery@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> 06/18/2002 05:10 PM
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> Make sure that CONFIG_VT is *not* set in your kernel .config, for both
> the installer kernel and the kernel you will install into the partition.
>
> --Guy
>
> On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 15:37, Liza Alenchery wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > My install program is for IBM iSeries and is RedHat install-based
> > install program using a kickstart file. It has a ncurses based
program
> > that asks the users for a few things at the end(after reboot). I find
> that
> > the screen is not displayed correctly when I am connecting using the
> > default Windows client. The value of TERM=linux irrespective of what is
> set
> > in the client. I guess this must be because the virtual terminal
> server(in
> > OS400 partition) says it's linux to my partition.
> >
> > If I am telnetted into my linux partition using Windows default
> > client(after the install), the default terminal emulation is ansi and
> that
> > too screws up the display. (If I am willing to give up color, I can use
> > VT100 and the display is not too bad. ) I tried with CRT3.4 and when
it
> is
> > made to emulate ansi, the same problem happens to the display.
> >
> > Now my question is how does anaconda deal with this situation? The
> anaconda
> > screens show up correctly whether I am connecting from Windows or
Linux.
> I
> > have skimmed thru the anaconda sources, but I am afraid I am at a
loss...
> > Is it using its own terminfo database? If so, where can I get it? Am I
> > using some ncurses calls wrongly?? or maybe I am not configuring
> something
> > correctly?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > Liza
> >
> >
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