Re: Undefined variable, TERM
Re: Undefined variable, TERM
- Subject: Re: Undefined variable, TERM
- From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:33:54 -0800
- Envelope-to: email@hidden
At 9:39 -0700 1/22/2003, Doug McNutt wrote:
>
Since I started working seriously with Apple's new X11 the problem has
>
occurred at every login. (X11 uses an environment variable $TERM.) X11 has
>
not been activated at the time of failure.
When I launch Terminal (which I seldom do any more) and type echo $TERM I get
vt100
When I launch GLTerm (which is running nearly constantly, so I opened a new
window instead) and type echo $TERM I get
xterm
It's not just X11 which uses the TERM environment variable, which names the
terminal (or lies about what it is). There is a whole capabilities system
which allows a program to drive the particular terminal which is [claimed
to be] in use. For more than you could possibly want to know (including a
"burst of static" on my machine for some reason), do man terminfo. Or
don't, if you want to stay sane ;-).
And YMMV for several reasons, not least of which is that my shell in both
Terminal and GLTerm is bash (as it is on the machine I just went to skim
terminfo without the "burst of static.")
Static as in a whole bunch of things like
/usr/bin/tbl:/usr/share/man/man5/terminfo.5:1141: excess data entry `Enter
horizontal highlight mode' discarded
/usr/bin/tbl:/usr/share/man/man5/terminfo.5:1143: excess data entry `-'
discarded
/usr/bin/tbl:/usr/share/man/man5/terminfo.5:1143: excess data entry `-'
discarded
--
John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA
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