From: jenkins@DPW.COM (Colin Jenkins) Subject: Re: Launching an xterm from an xterm Date: 15 Feb 1993 07:23:21 GMT
In article <1993Feb11.234243.13837@sfu.ca> rchen@fraser.sfu.ca (Robert Chen) writes:
>In article <1993Feb10.231659.8604@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911461@ariel.yorku.ca (CHRISTIAN D. ARMOUR) writes:
>>
>>Does anybody know why I can't run an xterm from the command
>>line in any other xterm? I get a "can't find usable termcap
>>entry" error, which is at times frustrating.
>>
>I have been waiting for someone to ask this for so long. I have never
>been able to get a termcap that will work with all of joe, telnetd,
>and xterm. I have tried about a zillion combinations. Is there
Have you tried "xterm -tn console"? This works for me. It would be nice
to have a standard termcap database though. Are the ones that come with
SunOS or the BSD releases legal to distribute?
Colin