Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:41:42 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net> To: Andrey Chernov <ache@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Rong-en Fan <grafan@gmail.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ncurses is updated Message-ID: <20070413194142.GA28856@saltmine.radix.net> In-Reply-To: <20070413192815.GA59251@nagual.pp.ru> References: <6eb82e0704061105u1f2c2fedr95ceae1393c66b6c@mail.gmail.com> <20070409163354.GA15528@icarus.home.lan> <6eb82e0704091049u256f649ei80537fac7b876a92@mail.gmail.com> <20070409195520.GA22614@saltmine.radix.net> <20070413192815.GA59251@nagual.pp.ru>
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--azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:28:15PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:55:20PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > For PuTTY, most users have it incorrectly set to "xterm"(*). > > There are no clues - so I added the environment variable to help. >=20 > BTW, we have "putty" terminal entry for that purpose. yes - but see http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html A.5.1 What terminal type does PuTTY use? which is not really helpful. Compare PuTTY and xterm using ftp://invisible-island.net/vttest/ (the difference in wrapping behavior which is evident in the first menu selection is reflected in the different terminal descriptions). --=20 Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (SunOS) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQFGH9zrtIqByHxlDocRAgmqAJ0bls2qUrYa2VmsmwbCwZWROGoTNQCffTrK H4eeOVezcYdz4wcXe7RR9eg= =JcVI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--
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