Re: screen-256color on MacOS 10.5.5

[Christian Ebert]

* Christian Ebert on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 17:47:25 +0100
> * Thomas Dickey on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 13:12:02 -0500
>> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Christian Ebert wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Ok, after calming down (a bit) ;-), and sort of getting a more
> reliable environment, I get this message with screen-256color:
> 
> "TERMCAP", line 19, col 1, terminal 'SC': Missing separator

Ok, I hope I found the main cause of the trouble: These errors
happened in conjunction with interactive python scripts, and both
python installations I use are not linked against my
self-compiled new ncurses but against older versions that do not
have the screen-256color entry. Copying the entry into the older
installations, or, probably, setting up ~/.terminfo, seems to
solve the problem.

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