Re: screen-256color on MacOS 10.5.5

[Christian Ebert]

* Thomas Dickey on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 13:12:02 -0500
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> I'm trying to find out whether the following is a GNU Screen or
>> ncurses issue:
>> 
>> After migrating from MacOS 10.4.11 (Tiger) to 10.5.5 (Leopard)
>> setting term "screen-256color" in .screenrc gives the following
>> error messages:
>> 
>> "TERMCAP", line 19, col 1, terminal 'SC': Illegal character - '^J'
>> "TERMCAP", line 19, col 1, terminal 'SC': wrong type used for string 
>> capability 'FA'
> 
> The messages look like those that ncurses would write, e.g., if it cannot
> find the terminfo database but does find a /etc/termcap or - in this case
> the $TERMCAP environment variable set by GNU screen - and finds some
> problem with the syntax.  I'm not sure about the ^J, but given the whole
> text from the environment variable, could probably show why ncurses didn't
> like some of it.
> 
>> I'm using latest ncurses(w) 5.7 and xterm-237.
>> 
>> Same setup worked flawlessly on 10.4.11, any ideas what's going
>> on? Should I turn to one of the Screen lists?
> 
> Mostly ncurses - one of the various ways that it fails to find the
> terminfo database: (a) not there, (b) TERMINFO and/or TERMINFO_DIRS
> variables set to a misleading value.

Sorry, this is entirely a MacOS 10.5 issue. Setting up the
environment in a standard way just doesn't work, especially for
X11. Nice example: the system bashrc sources a script that puts
/usr/local _after_ /bin and /usr/bin, it's called path_helper.sh
...

ATM I am calling X11 from another terminal emulator, because
otherwise even login doesn't seem to call a login shell, duh ...
again sorry, I stop ranting, entirely off-topic here.

c
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