Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/08/14/17:11:00
Bingo. I had TERM=linux in my leftover .bashrc from B20.1. Setting
TERM to cygwin gets me back to normal.
Thanks for the quick and helpful response.
Markus
Bob McGowan writes:
> Markus Hoenicka wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > this is another tiny bit of teething pain after upgrading from B20.1 to
> > the latest net release.
> >
> > When I use less as a pager, I notice additional blank lines in all
> > logical lines that extend the width of the terminal and thus have to
> > be wrapped. E.g. a line longer than 80 chars and shorter than 160
> > chars will be displayed as one full line, a blank line, and a line
> > showing the rest.
> >
> > This is different from what I used to see in B20.1 and different from
> > what I see on Linux.
> >
> > Is this again a text mount vs. binary mount issue? I have all mounts
> > as binary just as the setup.exe created them and I set Unix as the
> > default text format. I used to have text mounts in B20.1.
> >
>
> Since the break is in the middle of the line, it is not likely a
> text/binary issue. Much more likely that there is a change in the
> terminfo/termcap for your terminal type or that you have a mis-match
> between the value in TERM and the actual emulator you are using.
>
> Your terminal type as found in the TERM varialbe needs to match the
> emulator (which could be cygwin, xterm, rxvt, ansi, etc). If these
> match, then I would suspect a problem/feature in the terminal database.
> You might try different terminal names to see how they work. Using the
> following command line will set the varialbe for 'less' but not change
> the current value:
>
> TERM=ansi less file_with_long_line
>
> Then set 'export TERM=working_version' in your .profile where
> working_version is the working version you hopefully found. By the way,
> you would probably also want to try it with your editor (assuming you
> use something like vi) to be sure the new TERM value works with it too.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> --
> Bob McGowan
> Staff Software Quality Engineer
> VERITAS Software
> rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com
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Markus Hoenicka, PhD
UT Houston Medical School
Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
6431 Fannin MSB4.114
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(713) 500-6313, -7477
(713) 500-7444 (fax)
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