Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!botter!ast
From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Elle problem?
Message-ID: <1812@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 5 Jan 88 15:12:09 GMT
References: <1585@imagen.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <1585@imagen.UUCP> kchen@imagen.UUCP (Kok Chen) writes:
>
>Does anyone else have a problem with the UUENCODED version of Elle (that
>ast posted a little while ago) using the ANSI tty.c?
>
>The version I received seems to use the Heath-19 control codes if the TERM
>environment variable is not set, and the only other TERM values it would
>accept seems to be the Datamedia 2500 and 3500 terminals (DM2500 and DM3500).
>Setting TERM to ANSI and exporting it would return a "unrecognized type"
>message from Elle.
It is true that the default is the H-19.  I am not sure why, but the most
reasonable guess is that Ken had an H-19 around at the time he was writing it.
The TERM value has to agree with one of the names in /etc/termcap.  If you are
using the /etc/termcap that I posted, I think TERM=minix is the appropriate
thing to put in your .profile, and don't forget to export TERM.


Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)