On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:13:03PM -0400, George Georgalis wrote:
> I had posted this in the tech-pkg list (sorry)
> assuming a package was missing or corrupted, but I
> guess it is more of a netbsd-users, question...
> 
> I'm having a strange terminal problem within screen.
> Apparently color control sequences are replaced by
> "OOPS" eg 
> 
>  $ colorls -G / 
> .cshrc  boot    OOPSetc     OOPSlib     OOPSnetbsd  OOPSrescue  OOPSsbin    OOPSusr
> OOPSaltroot OOPScommand OOPShome    OOPSlibexec OOPSpackage OOPSroot    OOPSstand   OOPSvar
> OOPSbin     OOPSdev     OOPSkern    OOPSmnt     OOPSproc    OOPSsandbox OOPSOOPStmp
> 
> vim with syntax highlighting is impossible to use in screen.
> This a fairly fresh 2006Q2 netbsd amd64 machine being used for
> development - terminal colors works fine outside of screen, and no
> other problems have been observed. The .profile and .screenrc work
> fine on similar 32 bit machines. I've tried adjusting the TERM and
> various configs but I cannot identify the source of the problem.
> 
> Below is my env (from a default csh env) and .screenrc, any
> suggestions to try?

long ago, I gave up on trying to get screen to do the right thing with
term emulation and getting the right termcap spread everywhere, etc.
Instead, I alias screen to "screen -T vt220" and run with that.  It
seems to handle colors just fine.

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Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org