Term type 'Linux Console'
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Topic: Term type 'Linux Console'
Posted By: TonyG
Subject: Term type 'Linux Console'
Date Posted: August 08 2018 at 9:15am
I use AccuTerm a lot for SSH into various Linux systems with no MV involved at all.
I'd like to get more control over screen formatting at shell # and $. I'm working with both Ubuntu and CentOS.
Right now, as an example, here is what I see:
rm: remove regular file âmaillogâ?
[root@callisto log]# echo $TERM
linux
So with the AccuTerm Linux Console term type I'm still seeing control characters. Is there a better setting for pairing Linux and AccuTerm term types?
Thanks!
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Posted By: PSchellenbach
Date Posted: August 08 2018 at 9:40am
Hi Tony -
I believe the funny characters you see at shell prompt (and when executing many Linux commands) are due to different character set encoding on the server (probably UTF-8) and AccuTerm (probably ISO-Latin-1). If you change the character set in AccuTerm to UTF-8, everything will probably work Linux-wise, but might not play nicely with MV apps not using UTF-8. Or change your Linux character encoding to Latin-1: export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1.
Thanks,
Pete
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Posted By: TonyG
Date Posted: August 08 2018 at 5:16pm
UTF-8 did it. Thanks Pete!
Of course I also use Linux+MV in other systems. A long time ago I was thinking about writing a script that would toggle all required settings as I move between MV and the OS. One of these days soon I think I'll need to do that. :)
Best to ya bud!
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Tony Gravagno Nebula Research & Development
TG@ Nebula-RnD . com
http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog
http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno
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Posted By: TonyG
Date Posted: November 05 2018 at 11:04am
Follow-up: Setting Host Terminal Type to 'linux' is also key here. I have another .atcf using UTF-8 that didn't have this term type, and was still getting the raw characters rather than desired graphical symbols.
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Tony Gravagno Nebula Research & Development
TG@ Nebula-RnD . com
http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog
http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno
http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/64935
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