[TriZPUG] Yosemite and TERMINFO

[Jim Allman]

On Apr 15, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
> 
> I don't normally ask questions like this on this list. But I thought I'd give it a try before I spend a lot of effort turning this loose on the Internet at large.
> 
> I damaged something. I don't know how. But suddenly neither my Terminal.app nor iTerm2 knew their terminal types are xterm-256color when I entered either the clear or reset commands. /usr/share/terminfo/78/xterm-256color is present and $TERM is xterm-256color.

Some possibly useful links (including relevant StackExchange sites):

http://superuser.com/questions/839234/reset-mac-os-x-yosemite-settings-to-default
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_%28OS_X%29
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/154907/how-can-i-get-256-colors-on-the-default-terminal-over-ssh
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12345675/screen-cannot-find-terminfo-entry-for-xterm-256color

  =jimA=

Jim Allman
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