Re: No colors, unknown terminal

Christian Ebert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Organization Black Trash Productions <http://www.blacktrash.org/>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi John,

* John E. Davis on Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 12:12:39 +0000
> Christian Ebert <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have broken my S-Lang/Slrn setup -- the usual way: without
>> knowing what I was doing ;-)
> 
> Other than slrn, did you upgrade anything else?

Not that I remember -- but my memory might be quite buggy ;-)

The only unusual thing I did (and that I remember) is that I
tried out uxterm in Apple's X11. All went fine; and after a
restart ...

>> PATCHES:
>>  minimal_multipart
>>  usascii_override
> 
> Does the "stock" version of the latest pre0.9.9 snapshot have the same
> problem?

Yes. I also downgraded S-Lang, Slrn and Ncurses to previous
versions that surely worked: to no avail.

>> Symptoms:
>> 
>> - I suddenly had to use "slrn -C" to have colors.
>> - In eg. Apple Terminal, I get:
>> $ slrn
>> slrn pre0.9.9-67
>> Unknown terminal: nsterm-16color
> 
> Do you have `strace` on your system?

configure: error: operating system darwin8.11.0 is not supported by strace

Sorry.

I will try and think what I could have changed. Very strange.

c
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