Originally posted by: keyboarder2k

Hi,

I'm using midnight commander under AIX for a while now, but it looks not as it should. It's only black and white and when I force colors whith "mc -c" it shows some colors, but not like the default skin should look like (no blue background f.ex.)
Also some special characters are not shown right. The ".[^]>" in the upper right corner is a ".[^]>x" and the "<-" in the upper left corner is a "q<-".

I'm using ZOC for terminal with a "vt220" emulation - colored ls or vim is working well.

Are there any "special AIX settings" for mc I have to set?

Thanks,
Key2k
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Originally posted by: flodstrom

This may be dependent on which type of terminal you are using. For example, mc look okay in a dtterm (both AIX and Solaris), but does not look so good in a XTerm (still works fine though).

Not sure how that "ZOC" (never used it!) will behave if you change the terminal type to dtterm?
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Originally posted by: keyboarder2k

I tried with "dtterm" and "xterm" but both look the same like my default "vt220". There are colors, but it does not look like it should.
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Originally posted by: flodstrom

Then that ZOC is likely to be the problem.

If you want to see the difference install a X server on your desktop and display a dtterm from the AIX machine. In case your AIX server happen to have a graphical console you can see it there as well (dtterm's are the standard terminals in CDE).
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