Very Computer

Hello:

I have just installed ncurse. When running some of
the example programs provided with the package,
I get the message "this terminal does not support color".
I ran them in color xterm. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks
Stephen
Slackware 3.4

: Hello:

: I have just installed ncurse. When running some of
: the example programs provided with the package,
: I get the message "this terminal does not support color".
: I ran them in color xterm. What am I doing wrong?
in my faq's:

The current version of ncurses is 4.2
There's an faq at
        http://www.veryComputer.com/

The XFree86 3.3.2 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
There's an faq at
        http://www.veryComputer.com/
        ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm

: Thanks
: Stephen
: Slackware 3.4

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Thomas E.*ey

http://www.veryComputer.com/

: Hello:

: I have just installed ncurse. When running some of
: the example programs provided with the package,
: I get the message "this terminal does not support color".
: I ran them in color xterm. What am I doing wrong?

Nothing. Appearantly curses don't think that xterm support color.
If you run rxvt, curses would be quite happy with it, but color xterm
is not so common thing (Linux and BSD systems only, AFAIK) so curses prefer
to be a be a bit paranoid about this. Really it is much better to have
application go into B/W mode on terminal which supports color, then have
screen completely messed up with attempt to use color on termina which
don't support it.

In slang, there is a way to force library to use colors, but I'm unaware
about such thing in curses.
: Thanks
: Stephen
: Slackware 3.4
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:   export TERM=xterm_color
usually that's spelled "xterm-color".  There's also a "color_xterm", but that's
a special case (a particular implementation of xterm).  See my faq's:

The XFree86 3.3.2 xterm supports ANSI color and VT220 emulation
There's an faq at
        http://www.veryComputer.com/
        ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/xterm

The current version of ncurses is 4.2
There's an faq at
        http://www.veryComputer.com/

--
Thomas E.*ey

http://www.veryComputer.com/