lets talk about talk ... ?

[Rick Stevens]

Steve Larsen wrote:
> Rick,
> I apologize for the dual post .. for some bizarre reason I didn't 
> receive the reply
> so a double thanks is in order. I am set to use bash and don't run a gui 
> desktop.
> 
> My .bash_profile looks as such;
> 
>     # .bash_profile 
>     # Get the aliases and functions 
>     if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then 
>             . ~/.bashrc 
>     fi 
>     # User specific environment and startup programs 
>     PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin 
>     export PATH 
>     unset USERNAME 
>     alias l="ls -aFxl" 
>     alias lo="logout" 
>     alias lc="ls" 
>     alias h=history 
>     alias rm="rm -f" 
>     cat .greeting 
> 
> I do have ncurses installed.
> 
>     [root at somesystem root]# rpm -qa | grep ncurses 
>     ncurses-5.2-26 
>     [root at somesystem root]# 
> 
> Is the problem hiding in my bash profile parameters? Also I use CommNet 
> 32 v 1.05
> as VT100 for access.

What does "echo $TERM" return?  I just tested it via virtual terminals 
(ALT-F1, etc.) with the TERM set to both "linux" (the default) and
"vt100" and it works perfectly (well, vt100 ends up with a line of "q"s
instead of a line to separate the two halves).

You may have an initialization issue.  If your "$TERM" environment looks
OK, try using "tput init" or "reset" to reinitialize your screen.  If
"$TERM" doesn't look right, try:

	TERM=vt100;export TERM;tput init

to set it up appropriately.  Also make sure your comm program is set to
interpret the control characters properly when they come back from the
system.

You are using the "ntalk" daemon, right?  Port UDP/518.
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