[linux] Ncurses! (I am so clueless)

[Garrett Cooper]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 4:35 AM, Marie Tessier wrote:

> Thank you!  "export TERM=xterm-color" worked perfectly.  And I  
> added it to my .bashrc, so now it works automatically every time.   
> Colors are fixed, now for ASCII line art.
>
> Marie
>
> PS. Peter, sorry about the double message.  Thunderbird is trying  
> to outsmart me.
>
> Peter Woodman wrote:
>
>> could be a couple of things. my ncurses days are long behind me,  
>> but  one terminology issue i find the need to clarify- konsole is  
>> not a  shell, but a terminal emulator. things like "bash", "csh",  
>> "zsh",  these are shells.
>>
>> assuming you are using "bash" for your shell, try issuing the  
>> command  "export TERM=xterm-color" and see what that ncurses  
>> function returns.
>>
>> for a very well-documented piece of curses stuff (from ages ago),   
>> look at http://ojnk.sf.net/ and grab the source for ocd. the only   
>> time i've touched curses, but hey, it worked well, and colorful  
>> too :P
>>
>
>

     You may want to set the terminal to something other than 'xterm- 
color'; pine and other programs which-for some odd reason-depend on  
the value exported for TERM, respond differently to each terminal  
type and hate 'xterm-color' for some odd reason. I have found that  
using 'xterm' for TERM works just as fine and I still see colors :).
-Garrett