OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux and Euphoria...

• Posted by Irv Mullins <irvm at ellijay.com> Apr 24, 2002
• 454 views

On Wednesday 24 April 2002 09:45 pm, you wrote:
>
> Linux (UNIX, also) has had to handle the problem of multitudes of
> terminals that react in different ways for a long time.  Nobody wants to
> have to write 700 versions of a program to be able to handle all the
> terminal types out there, so the TERMCAP approach was developed.  If U
> look at the termcap file (usually in /usr/share/misc/), U will find that
> it is a text file which is actually a database with an entry describing
> the TERMinal CAPabilities of each type of terminal.  The format of the
> database is described in the section 5 termcap manpage (I think).  For a
> single user, or a group of like-minded users, I think Daniel has the
> right approach - customize X so that the desired characters are sent for
> each key.

Yes, however that should not be a problem here. All distributions 
of Linux which I have tried (about 6 or 7) have worked without 
any tweaking of the files. The problem Doug is having is more 
likely related to an installation problem (missing files, or 
something).

Doug, if you're still around, what distribution are you using,
and what happens when you type echo $TERM in each of the various 
terminals?

Regards,
Irv