Re: termcap and DISPLAY weirdness

From: Chuck Dillon (cdillon_at_nimblegen.com)
Date: 11/17/03 

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:59:36 -0600

John Santore wrote:
>
> Additional piece. If I telnet to the machine using a
> non X windows emulator (CRT), lines and function keys
> work ok. If, however, I set DISPLAY to a machine
> with the Xwindows emulator, my lines and function keys
> cease to work.
>
> Any ideas?

It appears that the application is doing something different when it
thinks it is running in a X environment.

Does the opposite hold? If you log in via X, bring up an xterm, unset
DISPLAY and then run the application does it work properly?

-- ced 

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Chuck Dillon
Senior Software Engineer
NimbleGen Systems Inc.