Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> Hello,

> I have a box that runs OpenBSD that sshes into my Debian box. On
> OpenBSD, the default colour term is vt220 so when I ssh to debian, TERM
> is set to vt220.

vt220's don't do color.

OpenBSD console is normally set to make $TERM to "vt200", which is twice
a bug since it doesn't emulate vt220 either (except if one considers that
a subset of a vt100 is again a subset of a vt220).

> When I run mc, all is well; colour, line draw, whatever.

That's a different bug ;-)

> When I run lynx or mutt, I get black on white with no colour. On Lynx
> this means that my blue on gray ends up as white on black; with mutt I
> don't get the blue top and bottom lines or the red thread lines.

That's normal...

> If I ssh in from an xterm, with TERM=xterm, everything is fine.

That's because Debian's "xterm" entry is set to correspond to xterm,
which does color.

> Does anyone have any clues on this?

Conventional applications (excluding hardcoded stuff like GNU ls)
uses terminfo/termcap data to determine what the terminal can do.
You should report a bug in the applications that don't.

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