Unix oddity
Mar. 15th, 2002 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioI have a shell account with a Unix provider. I use this for mail, web storage, news (when I do news), etc. I talk to it through SSH. Life is happy.
A few months ago my provider brought up a newer, faster, more reliable, spiffier machine, and they reccomended that we migrate to it. I took the final step last night of changing my mail delivery to go to the new machine. Life is still happy.
Except I've noticed a glitch, and I haven't a clue what's causing it. It may seem minor, but I seem to be more susceptable than average to minor visual-presentation quirks, and this one is bugging me.
When I use pine or emacs (presumably this a general characteristic, not about these two programs), text that is in reverse video -- the emacs mode line, the current-message info in pine, etc -- is in bold on the old machine and in the non-bold (regular) face on the new machine. It turns out that this bothers me.
What's the same: SSH client settings (I copied and renamed the profile, so I *know* the font and color settings are the same), .emacs, .pinerc, .profile, TERM=vt100. What's different: flavors of Unix, though I don't know what specifically they are. (How do I query that?) I assume that there's an environment setting that applies in one of the Unixes but not the other, but damned if I know what it is.
A few months ago my provider brought up a newer, faster, more reliable, spiffier machine, and they reccomended that we migrate to it. I took the final step last night of changing my mail delivery to go to the new machine. Life is still happy.
Except I've noticed a glitch, and I haven't a clue what's causing it. It may seem minor, but I seem to be more susceptable than average to minor visual-presentation quirks, and this one is bugging me.
When I use pine or emacs (presumably this a general characteristic, not about these two programs), text that is in reverse video -- the emacs mode line, the current-message info in pine, etc -- is in bold on the old machine and in the non-bold (regular) face on the new machine. It turns out that this bothers me.
What's the same: SSH client settings (I copied and renamed the profile, so I *know* the font and color settings are the same), .emacs, .pinerc, .profile, TERM=vt100. What's different: flavors of Unix, though I don't know what specifically they are. (How do I query that?) I assume that there's an environment setting that applies in one of the Unixes but not the other, but damned if I know what it is.
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Date: 2002-03-17 12:30 pm (UTC)Oh! I just checked the ports collection on my FreeBSD machine; mutt needs to be built with S-Lang support to do bold, etc. You'll have to talk to your sysadmin about that. (Probably "cd /usr/pkgsrc/mail/mutt; make -DWITH_SLANG -DWITH_SSL", but I don't know what build options OpenBSD normally uses for it.)