OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux problem (and feature idea)

• Posted by Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> Jan 04, 2006
• 476 views

ChrisBurch2 wrote:
> 
> Alexander Toresson wrote:
> > 
> > Chris Burch wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > its an environment xterm export thing.
> > > 
> > > Before running your program, enter
> > > 
> > > export TERM=linux
> > > 
> > > or
> > > 
> > > export TERM=xterm
> > > 
> > > Other part - pixel graphics with ncurses? Show me an example please!
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
> > > 
> > > <a
> > > href="http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/euphoria.htm">http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/euphoria.htm</a>
> > > <a
> > > href="http://uboard.proboards32.com/">http://uboard.proboards32.com/</a>
> > > <a
> > > href="http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/EUSQLite/eusql.html">http://members.aol.com/chriscrylex/EUSQLite/eusql.html</a>
> > 
> > I'm almost sure that you meant:
> > 
> > export TERM=ansi
> > 
> > Ah, and btw: I've built a debian package of the public domain version of
> > Euphoria.
> > That is, the non-commercial parts of euphoria. It puts the files in sane
> > locations
> > instead of in one monolithic directory, and it also gets rid of the
> > annoyance
> > of having to set TERM and EUDIR every time you want to use it, as I have
> > added
> > wrappers for exu and ecu that set those environment variables before
> > executing
> > the real binaries.
> > 
> > This reminded me of actually uploading it too :)
> > 
> > I believe that I am allowed to repackage it, as the license of the full
> > non-commercial
> > parts seem to be Public Domain.
> > 
> > Regards, Alexander Toresson
> 
> Hi
> 
> No, I didn't 
> 
> To see what your terminal or consle is running, type
> 
> echo $TERM

This returns 'xterm' on all X terminal emulators on my system, and 'linux' in a
text console.

> ansi as a terminal may not work in some cases - it seems to depend on the
> system,
> and as far as I can tell there may also be some influence with UTF encoding
> (but I haven't looked into it too much)

I tried setting a few different locales, both UTF and ISO. ansi did work in all
cases, It did work in a text console too.

> Note if you're using a program that doesn't write to the console, then it
> won't
> make a hal'peth of difference what your term type is.

That's right. I didn't know that. I assumed that exu would try to open the
console when it started and close it when it exited, but that doesn't seem to be
the case.

Regards, Alexander Toresson