From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 23 3: 0:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from plab.ku.dk (plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C3C37B401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:00:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from postmaster@plab.ku.dk) Received: (from root@localhost) by plab.ku.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) id f1NB0kG57274 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org.AVP; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:00:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from postmaster@plab.ku.dk) Received: from raven.plab.ku.dk (raven.plab.ku.dk [130.225.105.67]) by plab.ku.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1NB0gs57262 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:00:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from postmaster@plab.ku.dk) In-Reply-To: Bernd Luevelsmeyer's message of "Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:49:26 +0100" Subject: Re: Mergemaster Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010221145752.00a97030@216.67.14.69> <3A946216.1BD3E52D@heitec.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Dmitry Karasik X-Comment-To: Bernd Luevelsmeyer Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Lines: 20 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 23 Feb 2001 12:00:38 +0100 X-Mailer: Mail::Mailer[v1.18] Net::SMTP[v2.13] Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Bernd! On 22 Feb 01 at 01:49, "Bernd" (Bernd Luevelsmeyer) wrote: Bernd> mergemaster will use the program pointed to by your PAGER Bernd> envronment variable to display the diffs. You could write your own Bernd> program (perhaps a shell script around 'grep' and 'more') which Bernd> will leave out the offending characters, and set PAGER to that. Exactly - and PAGER looks at your TERM environment variable, and sends screen control signals according to it. If you have it set incorrectly, it's a small wonder that your modem locks. Try `export TERM=ansi` or whatever... -- Sincerely, Dmitry --- www.karasik.eu.org --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message