lets talk about talk ... ?

[Steve Larsen]

Well Rick .. mystery solved .. it's a CommNet issue. I upgraded to
the latest and the problem went away. My echo $TERM returned
linux and I was using ntalk .. but CommNet 1.04 can't seem to emulate
a proper TERM. By the way .. on the consol this always worked.
So thanks again.

Steve Larsen







At 10:06 AM 5/12/2004 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
>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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Steve Larsen
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