Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!piring.cwi.nl!jansteen From: jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: How to get Elvis to work? Keywords: Elvis, TERM evironment variable Message-ID: Date: 4 Feb 91 13:38:17 GMT References: <22704@netcom.UUCP> Sender: news@cwi.nl Lines: 28 rcb@netcom.UUCP (Roy Bixler) writes: >This may sound silly, but has anyone out there gotten Elvis to work on >the ST? My problem is that, when I invoke (provoke?) Elvis, I always >get the message 'unrecognized TERM type'. I am running with Gulam v. >1.04.05 with the TERM variable set to 'st', the TERMCAP variable >containing the termcap entry for 'st' and an \etc\termcap file with an >entry for 'st'. This same setup works with GNU Emacs and the >recently-posted less v. 97 (and no, I'm not running Mint either!). I >got my version of Elvis from panarthea. Any ideas? I even tried to >run without the TERM variable, just got kicked out again with 'TERM >variable must be set'. Talk about Catch-22! It must be set to "vt52". Jan van der Steen BTW. I know someone is currently working on the ST port of elvis-1.4. (The version that you are running is version 1.3). I don't know whether and when he will post to comp.*.atari.st though. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands