Re: screen, PuTTY, and kernel config

[Chris Lieb]

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Florian Bender wrote:
> Chris Lieb wrote:
>> I have run into two issues getting screen to work with the Linux kernel
>> configuration utility (make config).
>> 
>> First, in PuTTY, the display is garbled when the config utility is
>> running.  I have attached screenshots of the output I am getting
>> (PuTTY-garbled.png) and what I get when I'm not running in screen
>> (PuTTY-good.png).  This problem does not affect me if I do a console login.
>> 
>> Second, if I am in a screen session and SSH into another server running
>> screen (resulting in a 'nested' screen session), the arrow keys do not
>> work in the kernel configuration utility.  Other keys seem to work ok,
>> just not the arrow keys.  The arrow keys work fine when I am at a
>> prompt.  This problem does not seem to be associated with PuTTY since a
>> console login exhibits the same behavior.
>> 
>> Does anyone know how to fix these?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Lieb
> 
> Hi,
> when using Curses dialogs (I assume that eLinks has the same problem)
> within screen, changing the character encoding in PuTTY to UTF-8 usually
> works. I'm sure this depends on $LANG on the linux machine.
> 
> Regards,

Thanks, that solved my first problem.  Now to figure out how to get the
arrow keys to work in a curses application.  It's probably some cryptic
incantation of termcap that I need.

Chris
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