term type ?

[Net Llama!]

On 04/23/04 15:01, Vu Pham wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org>
> To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 4:53 PM
> Subject: Re: term type ?
> 
> 
> 
>>On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Vu Pham wrote:
>>
>>
>>>When I run the setup tool on RHE3 it displays with a lot of garbages on
> 
> the
> 
>>>screen. I 've tried VT100, VT220 but get the same problem.
>>>
>>>I tried the same things ( same emulator app, same VT type ... ) on a RH7
> 
> ,
> 
>>>and had no problem.
>>>
>>>Is there any setting on Redhat for this ?
>>
>>Which setup tool?   What is it defaulting to for TERM?  Try setting TERM
>>to xterm.
> 
> 
> Tools  that display menus cause garbage in my case. "setup" is the one that
> displays a menu for setting services, printer, ....
> I tried redhat-config-printer-tui and it gives the same problem.
> 
> I 've tried TERM with vt100,vt220,xterm.
> 
> By the way, I am in text mode, an emulator ( Absolute Telnet ) on Windows. I
> don't have this problem with RH7.

What do you have LANG set to?  I'm wondering if your telnet client is 
mangling things, or isn't capable of displaying some curses characters. 
  Does this problem occur if you're ssh'ing into the box?

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