Subject: Bug#3406: dselect unreadable under xterm

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 96 16:41 BST

Chris Lawrence Amshey writes ("Bug#3406: dselect unreadable under xterm"):
> Package: base
> Version: 1.1.0-10
> 
> dselect is quite unreadable under an xterm; perhaps the escape sequences are
> hardcoded? At any rate, it shows a whole bunch of the DEC graphics
> characters; given the amount of info available from TERM and TERMCAP
> settings, this sort of thing shouldn't happen.

I think there must be something seriously wrong with your setup.
dselect works fine for me in an xterm.

Can you tell me what your TERM and TERMCAP variables are, what version
of xterm you're running, and what version of dpkg you have ?  (dpkg
--version will do).

Ian.