MC over SSH from Mac OSX [was: Re: Mc Digest, Vol 13, Issue 14]

[Leonard den Ottolander]

Hello Ben,

Firstly, please use a descriptive subject line instead of replying to
your digest. Secondly, please have your mail user agent insert a
linefeed every 72 or so characters.

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 22:35, Ben wrote:
> The problem with SSH via the Mac's terminal to the server is that
> the character set and keystrokes are all screwed up. I don't know
> why; I know that the terminfo databases and suchlike are what deal
> with this issue, but I don't understand them at all.

There also is the character set issue. Please consider the environment
variables LANG and TERM on both the local and the remote system.

>  Or am I doomed to the following slow and step-heavy process:

You are doomed to go RTFM.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-15.html for starters.

If you can't figure out how to set your environment variables correctly
please be so kind to at least provide that information here.

Leonard.

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