On 11/30/05, Peter Farrow peter@farrows.org wrote:
Ps:
If
TERM=vt100; export TERM
works, you can make in permanent by adding it to /etc/profile
do a source profile
to implement it straight away...if you add it to /etc/profile
Note: this will make it global for all subsequent users... P.
Bad advice.
1. it doesn't solve the problem, it only masks the symptoms. 2. It's global for all users, when it may just be affecting one with a bad terminal emulator 3. a vt100 term type is the lowest common denominator, and will most likely cause other modern keystrokes to become erratic.
Proper solution is to fix the terminal emulator. This is seen in a number of things from misconfigured versions of putty on windows, to poorly compiled versions of Eterm on linux, to iTerm or whatever it is on osX these days claiming to be something it's not (rxvt instead of xterm etc)
-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center