Shell setup, termcap, colours, etc

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This Dreamhost support thread was started by NickC on 2010-02-16 17:05:25:

Post Reply? I’m a Dreamhost shell user for several years, and so far I’ve just “put up” with the difference between the shell on my home computers and when I ssh into Dreamhost. This means I put up with no or odd colours in vim, screen scroll-back and altbuffer not working properly, the usual BackSpace vs Delete rubbish, midnight commander not showing vertical lines but instead odd utf chars, etc. The common things you find when you use a remote shell. I do everything within screen to get around the crazily short session time-out that Dreamhost uses, so now I’m dealing with termcap issues in the shell AND screen’s silly quirks. So far I’m trying to fix it with ‘export TERM=vt100′ in .bash_profile. But Dreamhost’s vt100 termcap entry seems a little odd, and it hasn’t really fixed it. I very much doubt I’m the only Dreamhost customer who uses screen and the shell to do everything. I’m hoping that someone has “just fixed it” for themselves and can give me some guidance on what to do. Otherwise I can see I’m up for hours of trying to debug the abomination that is termcap. Many thanks for any help. Nick

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