[linux] Ncurses! (I am so clueless)

[Garrett Cooper]

On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:42 AM, Marie Tessier wrote:

> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>
> I just tried it out and it looks like just plain 'xterm' doesn't do  
> the trick for my ncurses, it has to be the whole 'xterm-color'.  I  
> tried out pine with both (I haven't used pine in a while, I don't  
> think I like the dark background), and pine is the same between the  
> two.  If I have problems with other programs, hopefully I will  
> remember to try changing it back.
>
> Thank you for the hints,
> Marie

Ah, forgot to say... if you do this via pine in _SSH_ it will  
probably exhibit this behavior. Either that or the BSDs are just  
'special' in some way and have a special effect on pine where it  
refuses to open via SSH with a TERM value of xterm-color.
-Garrett