Re: ncurses under sshd

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 01:20:03AM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote:
> Question: When I run make menuconfig on a k6-3 built system that uses 
> ncurses, everything looks ok, but when I run on a pentium 2 built 
> system, it doesn't display properly.(I used make menuconfig from the 
> linux kernel, because I can always get the display problem) So that make 
> me think it's a ncurses issue, but correct me if I'm wrong. I have 
> attached screens shots so you can see the difference.
> 
> System LFS unstable 6.0 both machines using GCC 3.4.1, ncurses update to 
> 724 patch.

PuTTY normally doesn't do erasures with the current background color. 
(I seem to recall someone recently saying that it's configurable, but it
is not, for instance, in the version of PuTTY that I've been using since
last year).  If it's setting $TERM to something like "xterm" on Redhat,
that's probably the color variant which assumes this feature (bce - back
color erase) is supported.  There's a better terminfo for PuTTY in
ncurses (TERM=putty), which should work.

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